Question

1/2 of a rectangle is painted red. 2/3 of the remainder is painted blue and the rest of the rectangle is painted yellow. What fraction of the rectangle is painted blue? What fraction of the rectangle is painted yellow?

Answer 1

blue=2/3(1-1/2)=1/3
yellow=1-1/3-1/2=1/6(6-2-3)=1/6

Answer 2

In a box of paper clips,3/8 of them are white,5/12 of them are red, and the rest are blue. There are 24 more red paper cilps than white paper clips. How many paper clips are there in the box?

Answer 3

1/3