The table shows how long it took melinda to do her math homework each day over four days. table) monday: 3/4, tuesday: 5/6, wednesday: 2/3, thursday: 1/2 what is the ratio of the time it took melinda to do her math homework on wednesday to the time it took her to do it on tuesday. me, i struggle with this topic in school.

4/5

The question is asking you to find the ratio of Wednesday's time (2/3) to Tuesday's time (5/6). To do that, you divide the fractions:

... Wednesday / Tuesday = (2/3) / (5/6)

There are a couple of different methods you can use to divide fractions.

1. Invert the denominator and multiply.

When we invert 5/6, it becomes 6/5. So our division problem is now a multiplication problem:

... (2/3) × (6/5) = (2×6)/(3×5) = 12/15

This result can be reduced by removing a factor of 3 from numerator and denominator:

... Wednesday/Tuesday = 4/5

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2. Make both fractions have the same denominator, then drop the denominators.

The denominators of the fractions in our ratio are 3 and 6. If we multiply 3 by 2, it becomes 6, so we can rewrite the numerator fraction as ...

... 2/3 = (2/3)×(2/2) = 4/6

Now, it has a denominator of 6 and our division problem is

... (2/3) / (5/6) = (4/6) / (5/6)

Dropping the (same) denominators gives ...

... Wednesday/Tuesday = 4/5

6e14 is the answer.