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Students were asked to choose their favorite season and 6/9 chose either spring or summer. If 5/9 chose spring, what fraction chose summer?


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1/9
if 5/9 out of 6/9 chose spring than the rest had to have chosen summer

The fraction of people who chose summer is 1/9.

What is a Fraction ?

Fraction is a number that represents the part of the whole.

It is given that

The fraction of people who chose either spring or summer = 6/9

This can also be represented as P( Spring ∪ Summer) = 6/9

P( Spring ∪ Summer) =  P( Spring ) + P( Summer)   ---------- (1)

It is also given that

The fraction of people who chose spring = 5/9

The fraction of people who chose summer = ?

From the equation 1

6/9 = 5/9 + P(  Summer)

P(  Summer) = 1/9

Therefore , The fraction of people who chose summer is 1/9.

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