Middle School:
Question: In each set of Scrabble tiles, there are 42 vowels, 58 consonants, and 2 blanks. Nine of the tiles are A tiles. What fractional part of the tiles are not A tiles?
Answer:
31/34
Solution: There are 42 + 58 + 2 = 102 tiles in total. If 9 of them are As, then 9/102 = 3/34 of them are A tiles. That means that 34/34 – 3/34 = 31/34 of the tiles are not A tiles.
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