Question

Of the houses in Abigail's neighborhood, 3/8 are white and another 3/8 are green. What fraction of the houses are either white or green? What fraction represents the houses that are neither white nor green?

Answer 1

In Abigail's neighborhood, 3/4 of the houses are either white or green, and 1/4 of the houses are neither white nor green.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find the fraction of the houses in Abigail's neighborhood that are either white or green, we can simply add the fractions of the white houses and green houses. As the question states, 3/8 of the houses are white and another 3/8 are green. Adding these two fractions together gives 3/8 + 3/8 = 6/8, which simplifies to 3/4. This means that 3/4 of the houses are either white or green.

To find the fraction of houses that are neither white nor green, we need to subtract the fraction we just found from the total, which is always 1 (representing 100% of the houses). So we subtract 3/4 from 1 to get 1 - 3/4, which equals 1/4. This means that 1/4 of the houses are neither white nor green.