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Q. Mrs. Jackson purchased 8/9 lb of potatoes. She used 3/4 of the potatoes to prepare dinner. How much of the potatoes did Mrs. Jackson use?

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Answer:

The answer is 5/36

Explanation:

first, you are going to convert both of the fractions to have the same dinominator by multiplying by any of their factors.

32/36 - 27/36 = 536

Then you subtract the numerators and that's it

hope I helped :)


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