Homeroom 101 and homeroom 102 share a hallway bulletin board. if home room 101 uses 3/5 of their half of display artwork what fraction of the bulletin board is used to display home room 101’s artwork?

To solve this problem you must keep on mind the following information:

The problem says that Homeroom 101 can use a half of display artwork (which is ) and they use . Therefore, you only need to multiply both fractions, as following:

Therefore, as you can see, the answer is: of the bulletin board is used to display Homeroom 101’s artwork.

you can first factor out the n to get n(1+5). we know that 1+5 is 6, so we just have 6n.