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Serggg [28]
3 years ago
9

Tom has 7/8 gallons of paint. He used 1/2 gallon of paint on a project. He uses the steps to show how much paint he had when he

was done. But Tom's work is incorrect.
Step 1: 7/8 -1/2

Step 2: 7/8-1/8

Step 3: 8/8

Step 4: 3/4

Explain what Tom did wrong and find out what the answer should be.
Mathematics
2 answers:
WINSTONCH [101]3 years ago
4 0

He made his mistake in Step 2. Tom should have subtracted 4/8 instead of 1/8. The mistake is that he was not consistent when he multiplied Denominators (bottom number) must be the same when handling fractions so Tom must multiply both the numerator and denominator by the SAME number to balance it out. 1/2 x 4/4= 4/8. Subtract. 7/8 - 4/8= 3/8. Tom has 3/8 of a gallon of paint leftover.

Bingel [31]3 years ago
3 0
Tom has 3/8 of a gallon of paint left over
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