Question

How well do you know your fractions? if maria has a cake with 8 slices and she eats 3 slices, what fraction of the cake is left?

Answer 1

The answer is only 5/8 slices of cake is left. Hoped this helped!

Answer 2

When an object is divided into a number of equal parts then each part is called a fraction. A proper fraction has numerator and denominator mutually prime.

The amount of cake maria has is $8X$. $X$ is some positive real number.

She eats 3 slices, then the amount of cake left with Maria is $8X-3X=5X$.

The fraction of cake left with Maria is $\frac{5X}{8X}= \frac{5}{8}$.