Question

5. Jack and Jill use rain gauges that are the same size and shape to measure rain on top of a hill. Jack

uses a rain gauge marked in fourths of an inch. Jill's gauge measures rain in eighths of an inch. On
Thursday, Jack's gauge measured inches of rain. Jill and Jack both had the same amount of water,
so what was the reading on Jill's gauge on Thursday? Draw a number line and write a sentence to
explain your thinking.

Answer 1

List the multiples

1/4,2/4,3/4,4/4

1/8,2/8,3/8,4/8,5/8,6/8,7/8,8/8

1/4=2/8

2/4=4/8

4/4=8/8

Those numbers are the common fractions so they would be the only fractions that both Jack and Jill could get.

Explanation: