Question #2dc91
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Feb 1, 2018
The third person will have to pay 1/6 of the cost.
Explanation:
Let the total cost be
One of the three agrees to pay
So, the amount remaining to be payed will be:
Equating the denominators:
So, the third person will have to pay 1/6 of the cost.
Feb 1, 2018
Explanation:
the total cost can be represented by 1
adding the fractions 12+13
the lowest common multiple of 2 and 3 is 6
⇒12+13=(12×33)+(13×22)=36+26=56
third person has to pay 1−56=66−56=16
third person pays 16 of the cost