How do you changes 2 1/8 as a whole number

a. 180 votes were for blue

b. 60 votes were for green

Step-by-step explanation:

Fractions

It's known 5/8 of the votes of a school-wide election were for painting the school blue. Suppose there were x voters in school.

Since 5/8 were for blue, then

Were for the rest of the colors. It's also known 5/9 of the remaining votes were for green, thus

of the remaining votes were for red.

The votes for red are:

of the total voters.

We know these were 48 votes, thus

There were 288 voters in school.

a. 5/8 were for blue, that is:

180 votes were for blue

b. 288-180 = 108 votes were for others than blue, and 5/9 of them were for green:

60 votes were for green and 108-60=48 votes were for red (as expected)