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 s

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Alja [10]

3 years ago

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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 s

tudents were wearing shorts. What fraction of the students were wearing shorts?

Mathematics

2 answers:

anastassius [24] · Answer 1 · 2022-09-24T10:22:32+03:00

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

Jlenok [28] · Answer 2 · 2022-09-24T12:13:07+03:00

Jlenok [28]3 years ago

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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.