Find the Fraction: Identifying the Shaded Region in a 3x4 Grid

Question

What is the marked part?

00:00 Find the marked part

00:03 Let's count the colored amount

00:07 Place this amount in the numerator

00:10 Now let's count the total number of parts that make up the whole

00:14 Place this number in the denominator

00:19 We want to reduce the fraction as much as possible

00:23 Let's break down 6 into factors 3 and 2

00:29 Let's reduce what we can

00:33 And this is the solution to the question

We can see that there are three shaded parts out of six parts in total,

that is - 3/6

But this is not the final answer yet!

Let'snotice that this fraction can be reduced,

meaning, it is possible to divide both the numerator and the denominator by the same number,

so that the fraction does not lose its value. In this case, the number is 3.

3:3=1
6:3=2

And so we get 1/2, or one half.
And if we look at the original drawing, we can see that half of it is colored.

$\frac{1}{2}$