Question

Mrs. Spencer’s class is signing up to play sports. 8/ 26 of the students want to play soccer and 12/26 want to play basketball. The rest of the students want to play baseball. What fraction of the students wants to play baseball

Answer 1

Since 8/26 want to play soccer and 12/26 want to play basketball, you would add 8/26 and 12/26 to get 20/26, then you would subtract 20/26 from 26/26, leaving you with 6/26 of the students wanting to play baseball.

note: if the question wants you to simplify you would divide both your numerator and your denominator by 2 to get 3/13 as your final simplified answer.

Answer 2

6/26 of the students to play baseball