In a neighborhood 10 houses are for sale and 53 are not for sale. Write a fraction representing the portion of houses that are for sale
The answer would be something like:
the number of houses for sale
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total number of houses
10/63
To write a fraction representing the portion of houses that are for sale, we need to identify the number of houses that are for sale and the total number of houses in the neighborhood.
Given that 10 houses are for sale and 53 houses are not for sale, we can find the total number of houses by adding these two numbers together:
Total number of houses = 10 (houses for sale) + 53 (houses not for sale)
Total number of houses = 63
So, there are a total of 63 houses in the neighborhood.
Now, to find the fraction representing the portion of houses that are for sale, we divide the number of houses for sale by the total number of houses.
Fraction representing the portion of houses that are for sale = Number of houses for sale / Total number of houses
Fraction representing the portion of houses that are for sale = 10 (houses for sale) / 63 (total houses)
Thus, the fraction representing the portion of houses that are for sale is 10/63.