Out of 400 trees in a park, 280 are deciduous. What fraction of number of trees in the park are deciduous?

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Step 1 Let&#039;s first talk about what a fraction can show, and I&#039;ll start by talking about pizza. Let&#039;s say we have a pizza that has 8 slices and I eat 3 of them. I can write: my slices of pizzatotal amount of pizza=38 We can do the same thing with the trees in the park. trees in the park that are deciduoustotal number of trees in the park =280400 And technically we could stop here - we have a fraction. However, often times we want to express the fraction in lowest possible terms. To do that, we take out forms of the number 1 that are part of the bigger fraction: 280400=28×⧸1⧸040×⧸1⧸0=7×⧸410×⧸4=710

Out of 400 trees in a park, 280 are deciduous.

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