document.write( "Question 1062671: In a garden 2/3 of the flowers are roses. Of the roses in the garden, 5/12 are yellow and the rest are red.
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document.write( "No.  7/12 would have been the answer to this question:\r\n" );
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document.write( "What fraction of the roses are red roses?\r\n" );
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document.write( "But that was not the question.  The question was:\r\n" );
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document.write( "What fraction of the flowers are red roses?\r\n" );
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document.write( "Since the roses are only 2/3rds of the flowers, \r\n" );
document.write( "the red roses are 7/12ths of 2/3rds of the flowers.  \r\n" );
document.write( "So we take 7/12th of 2/3rds, which means that we \r\n" );
document.write( "multiply the two fractions:\r\n" );
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