Question

Annie has two equal sized amounts of wax in two different colors she used 5/8 of the green wax and 1/3 of the blue wax to make some candles what fraction shows the total amount of wax left

Answer 1

Find a common denominator that 8 and 3 can go into.. which is 24
5/8 = 1/3 
15/24 - 8/24 
7/24

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