Sita decides to decorate a wall with three colour red, blue and orange.
She wants to use blue colour for 2 by 5 part of the wall,red colour for 2 by 3 of the remaining part and orange for the rest.
What fraction of the wall will be coloured red? What fraction of the wall will be coloured Orange? If the wall has an area of 25 square metres, what area of the wall will be Orange coloured

Dear Student,

Total area of the wall = 25 m2Area covered by blue colour = 25×25 = 10 m2Area of the wall left = 25-10m2 = 15 m2Area covered by Red colour = 23×15 = 10 m2Area of the wall left = 15-10m2 = 5m2Hence, Area of the wall Red coloured =10 m2, Area of the wall Blue coloured =10 m2, Area of the wall Orange coloured =5 m2Fraction of wall coloured by Red=1025=25Fraction of wall coloured by Orange=525=15 

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