Answer:At a company fish fry, 1/2 in attendance are employees.
Employees’ spouses are 1/3 of the attendance. What is
the percentage of the people in attendance who are not
employees or employee's spouses?
One half of X are employees.
One third of X are employee's spouses.
Step-by-step explanation:1/2 + 1/3 = 3/6 + 2/6 = 5/6
Then we subtract that fraction from one whole, or 1,
to see what fraction is left. That is, we say
1 minus 5/6
which is
1 - 5/6
Now write 1 as 6/6
6/6 - 5/6
We get 1/6
So 1/6 is left. Now we need to make that into
a percent by multiplying it by 100 and tacking on a "%"
1/6 × 100
1/6 × 100/1
100/6
50/3
16 2/3 %
So 16 2/3 % of the people in
attendance are neither employees
nor employee's spouses.
Now let's check:
1/2 are employees. That's 50%
1/3 are wmployee's spouses. That's 33 1/3%
15 2/3 % are neither employees nor employee's spouses.
Add them up
50 %
33 1/3 %
16 2/3 %
--------
99 3/3 %
And 99 3/3% = 100%