Question

Answer the following.
(a) How many quarters are there in one whole?
(b) How many halves make one whole?
(c) How many one-third parts make one whole?

Answer 1

Hint: We need to proceed with denoting quarters, halves and one-thirds into fractions and multiply them with the number of parts we require to get 1 ( whole part ).

Complete step-by-step answer:
(a) A quarter is ${\displaystyle \frac{1}{4}}th$ part of the whole
$={\displaystyle \frac{1}{4}}\times 4=1$
4 quarters makes one whole.
Thus 4 quarters are there in one whole.

(b) A half makes ${\displaystyle \frac{1}{2}}nd$ part of the whole
$={\displaystyle \frac{1}{2}}\times 2=1$
 2 halves make one whole.
Thus 2 halves are there in one whole.

(c) A one third part $\left({\displaystyle \frac{1}{3}}rd\right)$ of the whole makes ${\displaystyle \frac{1}{3}}$
$={\displaystyle \frac{1}{3}}\times 3=1$
3 one-third parts make one whole.
Thus 3 one-third parts are there in one whole.

Note: This type of question we need to understand that the whole is 1 complete part of any quantity . One-thirds , halves , quarters are just ways of expressing them as fractions . Note that each one of the fractions would be less than 1 , but there are other ways of expression like double , triple , etc. which are more than 1 whole part of any quantity.