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Gwendoline has 17 tonnes of jam. She give exactly one-sixth to lucinda. How much jam dose she give to lucinda? Use a fraction in your answear? How much jam will Gwendoline have left? Give your answer as
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Gwendoline has 17 tonnes of jam. She give exactly one-sixth to lucinda.

How much jam dose she give to lucinda?

Use a fraction in your answear?


How much jam will Gwendoline have left?

Give your answer as d decimal .

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She gives 1/6 to Lucinda (it says in the problem??).

She starts with 17 tonnes. She loses 1/6.
17 - 1/6 = 16 5/6
Gwendoline has 16 5/6 tonnes of jam left.

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