In a competition, a participant received a cash prize of $1500 for finishing fir
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In a competition, a participant received a cash prize of $1500 for finishing first. If the total prize money was $6000, what fraction of the total prize money did he receive?
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Questions & Step-by-Step Solutions
In a competition, a participant received a cash prize of $1500 for finishing first. If the total prize money was $6000, what fraction of the total prize money did he receive?
Step 1: Identify the cash prize received by the participant, which is $1500.
Step 2: Identify the total prize money for the competition, which is $6000.
Step 3: Write the fraction of the cash prize over the total prize money: 1500 / 6000.
Step 4: Simplify the fraction 1500 / 6000 by dividing both the numerator and the denominator by 1500.
Step 5: After simplification, you get 1 / 4.
Step 6: Conclude that the participant received 1/4 of the total prize money.
