Question

In art class,Kerion is coloring a pattern where half of the squares on her paper are being colored blue. Of the blue squares,1/3 of them will also have stripes. What fraction of squares will be blue with strips?

Answer 1

To get the fraction of blue squares with stripes we shall proceed as follows;
fraction of blue squares=1/2
1/3 of the blue squares have stripes, therefore we shall have:
fraction of blue square with stripes
=1/3 of 1/2
=1/3×1/2
=1/6
Hence we conclude that the fraction of blue squares with stripes was 1/6 of the total colored squares.