Angelica’s bouquet of a dozen roses contains 5 white roses. the rest of the roses are pink. what fraction of the bouquet is pink roses? there are 12 roses in a dozen.

Angelica's bouquet has 7/12 pink roses.

Step-by-step explanation:

A dozen is defined to be a set of 12 in number or group pf anything. Here, in this case we have roses so a dozen of roses means '12 roses'.

5 of the roses in the bouquet are white roses, so the fraction of white roses will be 5 divided by the total number of roses i.e. 12:

White roses =  

Rest of the roses are pink, so we can simply subtract 5 from 12 to get the number of roses which will be 12 - 5 = 7

Or

we can subtract the fraction of white roses from 1 to get the fraction of pink roses in the bouquet:

Pink roses = =

8

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