Answer:
To see the shaded regions, check out the attached image below. The shaded regions are in red.
The fractional values for each figure are:
- 3/6
- 12/24
- 6/12
- 6/12
- 8/16
- 9/18
- 12/24
- 12/24
The fractional answers are in bold. All of those fractions reduce to 1/2. Make sure that you don't reduce any of those fractions.
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Explanation:
We count out the number of squares for each figure. Then we shade half of them. For problem 1, we just shade the left half (or you can shade the right half, but you can only pick one side). This is because 3 is half of 6.
Problem 2 is a similar story, but we'll shade the first two columns out of the four total columns. You could shade the last two columns if you wanted, but you can't shade everything.
Problem 3 has an odd number of columns, but an even number of rows. I'm shading the first two rows to represent half of the blocks.
The rest are handled in a similar manner.
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To form the fractional results, you basically count the number of shaded smaller squares out of the number of squares total.
For example, the answer for problem 1 is 3/6 because we have 3 shaded red squares out of 6 squares total. The rest are handled the same way.
