Question

On the same day at school, 1/6 of the students were wearing skirts and 5/8 of the students were wearing pants. The rest of the students were wearing shorts. What fraction of the students were wearing shorts?

Answer 1

what you do is you find the common denominator between the two fractions given. the easiest is to just multiply them

6*8=48

and then multiply each numerator by the number it's denominator is multiplied by

1*8=8 and 5*6=30

and now you have your new fractions, add them together

8/48+30/48=38/48

this leaves 10/48 as the people who were wearing shorts, just simplify this and it's done

10/2 =5/24
48/2