Erica bought #3 1/2# yards of fabric. If she uses #2/3# of the fabric to make a curtain, how much will she have left?
1 Answer
Jan 16, 2018
Explanation:
1) We have to minus
2) We have to find a common denominator of both of the fractions as this is an essential step to add/subtract fractions, So we need to find the lowest common multiple of 2 and 3 which is 6:
As both denominators are the same, all we need to do is take away 4 from 21:
So therefore the fraction goes to:
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The answer could be left like this, or a mixed fraction, or a decimal which can be:
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