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Pick the rectangle that has one-quarter shaded. Is it (A), (B), (C), or (D)?
There is also a second part to this question that we will look at later.
We need to find the rectangle that has been split into four equal parts with one part shaded. This is true of option (A). So this is the rectangle that shows one-quarter shaded.
Pick another way to shade one-quarter of the rectangle.
Each of these rectangles has been split into four parts. But in (A) and (B), the four parts are not equal. This means that these answers cannot show one-quarter. The rectangles in (C) and (D) have been divided into four equal parts. Option (C) has one part shaded. So this shows one-quarter of the rectangle has been shaded.
We have found two different ways to shade one-quarter. We split the rectangle into four equal parts and shade one of them.
