Kaitlin buys 9/10 of a pound of orange slices. She eats 1/3 of them and divides the rest equally into 3 bags. How much is in eac

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jeka57 [31]

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Kaitlin buys 9/10 of a pound of orange slices. She eats 1/3 of them and divides the rest equally into 3 bags. How much is in eac

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frozen [14] · Answer 1 · 2022-02-21T20:47:23+03:00

frozen [14]3 years ago

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I found how to solve this by pretending the /10 wasn't there and divided 9/3= 3. Next, I subtracted 9-3=6, and because she is splitting 6 into 3 bags she will have to divide 6/3= 2. So in each bag there will be 2/10 pound of orange slices.