Question

in peter's garden, 3/4 of the flowers are tulips. of the tulips, 2/3 are yellow. what fraction of the flowers in peter's garden are yellow tulips? draw a model to solve.

Answer 1

Half of the flowers are yellow tulips.

3 of the 4 columns are marked T for tulips.

Of those 3, 2 of them are yellow.

This shows us that 6 of the 12 boxes, 1/2, are yellow tulips.