Question

A piece of cloth was 4 2/3 meters long. The maximum number of 5/6 meters long was cut from this piece of cloth. What is the length of the remaining material?

Answer 1

`\text{Total length = 4}(2)/(3)\text{ meters}`
`\text{Length of piece of cloth cut = }(5)/(6)`

Length of the reamining piece of cloth

`\begin{gathered} =\text{ 4}(2)/(3)\text{ - }(5)/(6) \\ =\text{ 4(}(2)/(3)\text{ - }(5)/(6)) \\ =\text{ 4(}\frac{4\text{ - 5}}{6}) \\ =\text{ } \end{gathered}`
`\begin{gathered} =4(-1)/(6) \\ =\text{ 3}(6-1)/(6) \\ =\text{ 3}(5)/(6)\text{ meters} \end{gathered}`