what is half of 2/3?

Question

kyle &eric have painted 2/3 of a room kyle painted 1/2 of the room how much of the room did eric paint ?

Answer 1

what is half of 2/3?
kyle &eric have painted 2/3 of a room kyle
painted 1/2 of the room how much of the
room did eric paint ?

It's a matter of subtracting Kyle's portion from
the total that was finished.

x = 2/3 - 1/2

Adding and subtracting fractions requires a
common denominator in both fractions. In this
problem, 6 is the common denominator.
Multiply each fraction by a value that will
convert it to some number of 6ths.

x = ((2/3) * (2/2)) - ((1/2) * 3/3))

2/2 and 3/3 are actually 1, so the value of
the fractions won't change.

x = 4/6 - 3/6 = 1/6

Eric painted 1/6 of the room.

Comments

Notice that the problem did NOT ask what is 1/2 of 2/3. It stated that Kyle painted 1/2 of the room, leaving Eric to paint whatever amount it took to make 2/3 of the room painted.