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You received 1⁄3 pound of candy from your grandmother, 1⁄2 pound of candy from your sister, but your best friend ate 1⁄5 pound of candy. How much candy do you have left?

User Umar Abbas
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you set the same denominator which would become

2/6 and 3/6

5/6 is how much chocolate you get

Now you set the same denominator again

50/60 and 12/60

subtraction would cause

38/60 is amount of candy left
simplify to 19/30
User Dulanga
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give them the same denominator.
19/30 is what you have left
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