Question

Janice bought her mother a bunch of 10 flowers. Two of the flowers are daisies. One half of the remaining flowers are tulips. Write the fraction of the flowers that are daisies

Answer 1

You can use 2/10 or 1/5. Both are correct.

Answer 2

2/10 of the flowers are daises.

4/10 of the flowers are tulips.

Since there is 10 flowers, that will be your denominator. 2 out of the ten flowers, so 2 is your numerator. There is 8 flowers left over and half of that is 4.