Answer:
5/33
Step-by-step explanation:
Answer:
28 questions answered.
Step-by-step explanation:
40(2/5) is 16 questions.
40-16 is 24 questions left.
24(.5) is 12 questions.
16+12 gets you 28 questions.
Answer:
Catherine's sister ate 2/15 gallons of the ice cream.
.
Step-by-step explanation:
Let
be the amount of ice cream that Catherine's sister ate, in gallons.
- Original amount: 1 gallon.
- What Catherine ate:
gallons. - What Catherine's sister ate is assumed to be
gallons.
- What's left:
gallons.
Consider the relationship:
.
That is:
.
Add
to both sides of this equation:

Substract
from both sides:
.
Convert the denominator of all three numbers on the left-hand side to 
.
.
In other words, Catherine's sister ate
gallons of the ice cream.
One is 17.22 and the other is simply 2.