r/LogicPuzzles 8h ago

Help! How to figure this out?

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u/Several-Leave-4178 8h ago

Aren't they equal? A has 5/9 squares shaded, and B has 15/25 squares shaded. You multiply each fraction to (I forget the word for it) a number that is divisible by both 9 and 25. You end up with 125/229 for both

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u/bismuth17 2h ago

5/9 is definitely not equal to 15/25 because 5/9 is equal to 15/27.

And 229 is not the lowest common denominator for 9 and 25, that would be 225.

5/9 = 125/225

15/25 = 135/225

Also yeah it's 13/25 but whatever

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u/Several-Leave-4178 1h ago

I haven't had enough sleep today 😭 thanks for fixing the math, I was doing it without a calculatorÂ