Question

Lenox ironed 1/4 of the shirts over the weekend. She plans to split the remainder of the work equally over the next 5 evenings. If lenox has 40 shirts, how many shirts will she need to irok on Thursday and friday? Find its simplest fraction form

Answer 1

Given data:

The total numbers of shirts are T=40.

The fraction of total shirts ironed in week days are,

`(1-(1)/(4))T=(3)/(4)T`

The expression for shirt ironed in each week day is,

`(1)/(5)((3)/(4)T)=(3)/(20)T`

The number of shirts ironed on thursday and friday is,

`\begin{gathered} 2((3)/(20)T)=(3)/(10)T \\ =(3)/(10)(40) \\ =12 \end{gathered}`