Question

Tameka built 1/2 of a shed on Monday and 2/5 of the shed on Tuesday. Tameka finished building the shed of Wednesday. What fraction of the shed did she build of Wednesday?

EXPLAIN STEP BY STEP!

Answer 1

Step One

Find the sum of the fractions for Monday and Tuesday

1/2 + 2/5

The common denominator for these 2 days is 10

1/2: 1*5/(2*5) = 5/10

2/5:2*2/(2*5) = 4/10

Add these two equivalent fractions together.

5/10 + 4/10 = 9/10

The first 2 days resulted in 9/10 of the shed being completed.

Step Two

Find out how much (in terms of fractions) is left of the shed.

Let the whole shed = 1

Let what has been done = 9/10

What remains is 1 - 9/10 = 1/10

Answer: 1/10 of the shed needs to be done