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You spend 5/6 of the money in your pocket on new clothes for school. The amount you spend on jeans for school is 2/5 of the total amount you spend on all your school clothes. What fraction of the original
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You spend 5/6 of the money in your pocket on new clothes for school. The amount you spend on jeans for school is 2/5 of the total amount you spend on all your school clothes.

What fraction of the original amount of money in your pocket do you spend on jeans?

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If the amount of money you spend in total is 5/6, and you spend 2/5ths of that on jeans, then 2/5 of 5/6 is what you want to get. To get that, we simply multiply the two to get 10/30 or 1/3 by dividing both the numerator and denominator by 10
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