Question

please help in the bleachers at the basketball game, 1/4 of the fans are adult men, and 5/12 are adult women. What fraction of the fans are adults. What fraction of the fans are children.

Answer 1

If you change 1/4 so that the denominators of both fractions are the same by mutiplying 4x3 for the bottom and 3x1 for the top and then add 5/12 and  3/12  to get 8/12 and then for it to be a whole number, you need 4/12 to complete the whole which is the fraction of children at the bleachers at the basketball game (4/12) .