Video Transcript
Pick the shape with three-quarters
shaded.
In this question, we’re thinking
about quarters. Now, we know that quarters are part
of a whole amount, when one whole has been split into four equal parts. Now, if we look at the circles that
are in this picture, we can see that each one of them has been split into four equal
parts. There’s a quick way to find
quarters. And that’s to split a circle once
down the middle to show halves and then dividing each of those halves into half with
a line across the middle, four equal parts or quarters.
Can you see that each of the
circles has got black lines to show that it’s been divided in this way? So the first thing that we can say
about our possible answers is that they all show quarters. But we’re looking for a shape that
has three-quarters that are shaded. Our first shape has one, two parts
shaded. This has two-quarters shaded, not
three-quarters. Our second shape has one, two,
three parts shaded red. Looks like these are the
three-quarters we’re looking for.
Let’s just quickly look at the
other two shapes because they’re interesting. Our third shape has one out of four
equal parts shaded. This is the one you might
recognize. It has one-quarter shaded. And our final shape has four parts
shaded. That’s four out of the possible
four. Four-quarters are shaded. And we know that four-quarters are
the same as one whole. We know that when we divide a
circle into four equal parts, they’re called quarters. And so the shape that has
three-quarters shaded is this circle here. It’s the one where three out of
four equal parts are shaded red.