Mr sutton bought 36 pencils to give away.
1/4 of the pencils were red and 1/3 of the pencils were purple. Were there more red or purple?

Purple

Step-by-step explanation:

1/4 (9 pencils) is less than 1/3 (12 pencils), so more pencils were purple.

There was more purple.

Step-by-step explanation:

1/4 of 36 is 9 pencils, or 25% of the pencils.

1/3 of 36 is 12 pencils or 33% of the pencils. That is significantly more.

rounding to the nearest thousandth would be 452,000