Kiyo and Steven are tiling the floors in an office building Kiyo tiled 3/6 if the floor in one office and Steven tiled 5/12 of the floor in another office write to explain how to use a benchmark fraction to determine who tiled a greater portion of the floor

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Libby Frye

19 March, 22:31

Kiyo and Steven are tiling the floors in an office building Kiyo tiled 3/6 if the floor in one office and Steven tiled 5/12 of the floor in another office write to explain how to use a benchmark fraction to determine who tiled a greater portion of the floor

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Donald · Answer 1

For this case what we can do is find the percentage of the floor that each one finished.

We have then:

For Kiyo we have:

(3/6) * (100) = 50%

For Steven we have:

(5/12) * (100) = 41.7%

Answer:

Kiyo tiled a greater portion of the floor.