Question

Chad's family traveled
`(5)/(8)` of the distance to his grandmother’s house on Saturday. They traveled
`(1)/(3)` of the remaining distance on Sunday. What fraction of the total distance to his grandmother’s house was traveled on Sunday?

Answer 1

a whole or 1, is when the numerator and denominator are the same, namely 2/2, 3/3, 10000/10000 is a whole.

on Saturday they travelled 5/8 of the way, now, the whole being 8/8, so if we take 5/8 from 8/8, we're simply left with 3/8, that's the remaining distance to grandmas house.

on Sunday they travelled 1/3 of that remaining amount, how much is that? well, is simply their product,

`\bf \cfrac{3}{8}\cdot \cfrac{1}{3}\implies \cfrac{3}{3}\cdot \cfrac{1}{8}\implies \cfrac{1}{8}`