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kim used three different color markers to paint one poster. 1/2 of the poster was red 1/6 of the poster was yellow the rest was blue what fraction of the poster was blue

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(1)/(2) + (1)/(6) = (6)/(12) + (2)/(12) = (8)/(12)
if you reduce 8 twelfths then it is 1 4/12
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