Don't worry hun you're not stupid. so basically the purple pen means the obvious right? it means that those are the numbers that you will be focusing on first. you are going to make sure that you change them to the same bottom # that way you are able to add them at the very end okay? so what we are going to do is find a # that those bottom #s both go into right? and that would be ten. So what you want to do is multiple top and bottom by the same number to get the denominator to 10. (as pictured) then you will bring both equations down for clean space and add them. like this:
No could be represented as N, Yes can be Y, and X can be neither. You have to first see how many people they asked in total. So add 1225, 498, and 395. You get 2118. So that would be the bottom number on all the fractions.
No would be 1225/2118
Yes would be 498/2118
Neither would be 395/2118
You have to be sure you'd put like N=1225/2118 and y=498/2118 and x=395/2118
So you only need to solve for yes. So the other information should have been included so you could get the total number of people who answered, aka "the bottom number"
so yes is 498/2118 and you have to represent it with a number, I chose y. But usually they like x if there is only one to solve for.
You need to reduce. With such a high number it can be tough. But I can see right way I can do 2.
498 divided by 2 is 249. 2118 divided by 2 is 1059.
That makes it y=249/1059
Both of those can reduce by 3. 249 divided by 3 is 83. 1059 divided by 3 is 353.
That makes y=83/353
That's the lowest it can go.
Answer:
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