In a middle school glee club, 2/5 of the singers are sopranos, 1/3 are altos, and the rest are tenors. if there are 90 students in the glee club how many of them are tenors?

To find the fraction of the glee club that are tenors, we first need to add  and before subtracting the sum from 1.




Thus, we know that of the middle school glee club students are tenors. We simply get the actual number of tenors by multiplying this fraction to the total number of students in the glee club.



ANSWER: 24 students in the glee club are tenors.

You can find the area of a rectangle by multiplying the length and height. so multiply 1/2*7/4(which is the simpler version of 1 3/4) and you get 7/8 as your answer.