a basket of fruit has 3 apples, 2 pears, and 4 bananas. what fraction of the fruit are bananas?
4/9
Total of fruits: 9 (the denominator)
Bananas: 4 out of the 9 total fruits (the numerator)
4/9 of the fruit basket are bananas. :)
To find the fraction of bananas in the basket, you need to determine the total number of fruit and then count the number of bananas.
In this case, the basket contains 3 apples, 2 pears, and 4 bananas. To find the total number of fruit, you add the numbers together: 3 apples + 2 pears + 4 bananas = 9 fruit.
Now, to find the fraction of bananas, divide the number of bananas by the total number of fruit. In this case, there are 4 bananas out of 9 fruit. So, the fraction of bananas in the basket is 4/9.
Therefore, the answer is that 4/9 of the fruit in the basket are bananas.