Question

Beans, cucumber and Amaranth are grown in the school vegetable garden. Beans are grown in

of the garden, cucumber in of the garden and amaranth in the remaining part.

(i) How much of the garden is used for beans and cucumber?

(ii) How much is used to amaranth?

Answer 1

(i)

Part of the vegetable garden in which beans are grown =

Part of the vegetable garden in which cucumber are grown =

∴ Part of the vegetable garden used for beans and cucumber =

First, we change these fractions to fractions with the same denominator.

Thus, the denominator required should be a multiple of 7 and 5 = 7 × 5 = 35.

and

∴

∴ Part of the vegetable garden used for beans and cucumber =

(ii)

Total part of the vegetable garden = 1 =

Part of the vegetable garden used for beans and cucumber =

∴ Part of vegetable garden used for amaranth =