Anita has built a long shelf for her collection of textbooks. Before putting her books on the shelf, she divides the shelf into 5 equal sections. Anita fills 1 section of the shelf with science books.What fraction of the shelf does Anita fill with science books?____ /____
Q. Anita has built a long shelf for her collection of textbooks. Before putting her books on the shelf, she divides the shelf into 5 equal sections. Anita fills 1 section of the shelf with science books.What fraction of the shelf does Anita fill with science books?____ /____
Dividing Shelf: Anita divides the shelf into 5 equal sections and fills 1 section with science books. To find the fraction of the shelf filled with science books, we consider the total sections and the sections filled with science books.
Finding Fraction: The fraction representing the part of the shelf filled with science books is the number of sections filled 1 over the total number of sections 5. So, the fraction is 51.
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