Folding Fraction
A strip of paper that is gray on the front, and white on the back can be divided into three squares of the same size. If you fold this strip diagonally along the middle square as pictured below, what fraction of the white side is showing? (Write your answer as a decimal)
The answer is 0.5.
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1 solution
You have 2 equal sqares in both ends and the square in the middle cut in half, so you have even porportions of both colors.