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Two-thirds of students in a class are girls. If one-half of the girls wear glasses, what fractional part of students are girls who wear glasses?

(A) 1/8
(B) 1/6
(C) 1/5
(D) 1/4
(E) 1/3

Respuesta :

Numenius

Let's assume the number of students in the class be x.

Given that, Two-thirds of students in a class are girls.

So, number of girls [tex] =\frac{2}{3} x [/tex]

Now ne-half of the girls wear glasses. So, one-half of [tex] \frac{2}{3} x [/tex] is

= [tex] \frac{1}{2} *\frac{2}{3} x [/tex]

=[tex] \frac{1}{3} x [/tex] Cancel out 2 from both numerator and denominator.

So, one third of the students are girls who wear glasses.

So, the correct choice is E.