Question

On the same day at school, 1/6 of the students were wearing skirts and 5/8 of the students were wearing pants. The rest of the students were wearing shorts. What fraction of the students were wearing shorts?

Answer 1

What you do is you find the common denominator between the two fractions given.  the easiest is to just multiply them 

6*8=48

and then multiply each numerator by the number it's denominator is multiplied by

1*8=8  and 5*6=30

and now you have your new fractions, add them together

8/48+30/48=38/48

this leaves 10/48 as the people who were wearing shorts,  just simplify this and it's done

10/2    =5/24
48/2

Answer 2

The answer to this problem is 5/24. First you find the LCM that is 48. Then you multiply 1 by 8 and get 8 so that fraction is 8/48. Then you multiply 5 by 4 and  get 20 put that into a fraction and subtract then you reduce the fraction.