Question

There are 60 new houses being built in a neighborhood last month 2/3 of them were sold, this month 1/5 of the remaining houses were sold, how many houses are left to be sold

Answer 1

There are 16 left to be sold

Explanation:

Start by finding
`(2)/(3)` of 60.

To find one-third do 60÷3

60÷3=20

`(2)/(3)` of 60 would be 40, So 40 were sold last month.

60-40=20 so that leaves us with 20 houses.

Now
`(1)/(5)` of the 20 houses were sold this month, to find this do 20÷5

20÷5=4

`(1)/(5)` of 20 is 4

now to find the remaining amount of houses to be sold do 20-4

20-4=16

So we have 16 houses left to be sold