Question

It turn out that 24 guests attended the graduation party and every guest brought a gift. 5/8 of the guests gave a cash gift. The rest of the gifts were not cash.How many gifts were not cash

Answer 1

Given data:

The total numbers of guests are n=24.

The given fraction of the guests that have cash gift is f=5/8.

The expression for the gift that are not in cash is,

`g=(1-f)* n`

Substitute the given values in the above expression.

`\begin{gathered} g=(1-(5)/(8))*24 \\ =(3)/(8)*24 \\ =9 \end{gathered}`

Thus, the numbers of the gift that are not in cash is 9.