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A recipe calls for 2 ½ cup of flour, but Paul only has 2 ⅙. How much more flour does he need? Convert to improper fractions 2 & 1/2 = 5/2 2 & 1/6 = 13/6 Convert 5/2 to an equivalent fraction with a denominator of 6: 15/6 We subtract 13/6 from 15/6 15/6 - 13/6 = 2/6 2/6 = 1/3

ruth has 12/4 apple pies . how many whole pies does ruth have 12/4 = 3 whole pies since 3*4 = 12

Danny's mom ate 1/6 of an ice cream cake. Danny and his sister want to split the remainder of it. How much of the cake would each get? If Danny's mom ate 1/6 of the cake, then we have: 1 - 1/6 of the cake left. We use our fraction subtraction calculator for 1 - 1/6 to get: 5/6 If Danny and...

-1 3/5 divided by -2/3 We write this as: -1&3/5 / 2/3 Using our fraction division calculator, we get: 12/5

A fair die is rolled. What is the probability of rolling a 3 or a 6? P(3 or 6) can be written as: P(3) + P(6) A fair die means all faces have an equal probability of 1/6 P(3) = 1/6 P(6) = 1/6 P(3 or 6) = P(3) + P(6) P(3 or 6) = 1/6 + 1/6 P(3 or 6) = 2/6 Using our fractions simplifier for...

Scott and Dylan both leave the park at the same time, but in opposite directions. If Scott travels 12 mph and Dylan travels 19 mph, how long until they are 186 miles apart? Hour 1, they are 19 + 12 = 31 miles apart. So each hour, they get 31 miles more apart. When they are 186 miles apart, we...

3 students share 2 pizzas. How much of a pizza does each student get? Pizzas per student = 2/3

5/12 of a circle what measure in degrees A circle measures 360 degrees. We multiply as follows: 5/12 * 360 = 150 degrees

A company has 12,600 employees. Of these, 1/4 drive alone to work, 1/6 car pool, 1/8 use public transportation, 1/9 cycle, and the remainder use other methods of transportation. How many employees use each method of transportation? Find the remainder fraction: Remainder = 1 - (1/4 + 1/6 + 1/8 +...

1/3 of students at a school are boys. If there are 600 students at the school, how many are girls? If 1/3 are boys, then the number of boys is: 600 * 1/3 600/3 We type this fraction into our search engine to simplify, and we get: 200 Now we need to find how many girls are at the school: Girls...

Arthur had $90. He spent $40 and gave $20 to his brother. What fraction of Arthur's money is left? Arthur starts with $90. He gives away $40, so now he has $90 - $40 = $50. Next, he gives $20 to his brother, so now he has $50 - $20 = $30. So Arthur has 30/90 left. We type 30/90 into our...

5 girls share 4 sandwiches. What fraction of the sandwich does each girl get? We want to know sandwiches per girls. So we divide: 4 sandwiches per 5 girls 4/5

12 students want pancakes and 14 students want waffles. What is the ratio of the number of students who want pancakes to the total number of students? 12/14 is the initial ratio. However, we can simplify this. So we type 12/14 into our search engine and choose simplify. We get: 6/7

3/4 of the students went skiing.there are 24 students in the class. How’s many went? We want 3/4 of 24. We type 3/4 of 24 into our search engine and get: 18 students

5/8 Of a class are boys. what fraction of the class are girls? The total class equals 1. Since 5/8 are boys, we subtract 5/8 from 1: 1 - 5/8 But we can write 1 as 8/8. So we have 8/8 - 5/8 Type this fraction operation into our search engine and we get: 3/8 are girls

Four fifths of 300. Multiply 4/5 by 300: 4(300)/5 1200/5 Simplifying this fraction, we get: 240

One fifth of the square of a number We have an algebraic expression. Let's break this into parts. The phrase a number means an arbitrary variable, let's call it x The square of a number means we raise it to the power of 2. So we have x^2 One-fifth means we have a fraction, where we divide our...

A spinner has 10 equally sized sections, 2 are gray 8 are blue. The spinner is spun twice. What is the probability that the first spin lands on blue and the second lands on gray? P(blue) = Blue sections / Total Sections P(blue) = 8/10 Reducing this using our simplified fraction calculator, we...

Today is my birthday! Four-fifths of my current age is greater than three-quarters of my age one year from now. Given that my age is an integer number of years, what is the smallest my age could be? Let my current age be a. We're given: 4/5a > 3/4(a + 1) Multiply through on the right side...

A restaurant chain sells 15,000 pizzas each month, and 70% of the pizzas are topped with pepperoni. Of these, 2/3 also have peppers. How many pizzas have pepperoni and peppers? We multiply the pizzas sold by the percentage of pepperoni times the fraction of peppers. Since 70% is 7/10, we have...