Question

At a bake sale, the soccer team had 50 packs of cookies to sell. At the end of the sale, they had 5 packs left.

What FRACTION of the cookies were sold?

Answer 1

45/50= 9/10

Explanation:

If 5 packs were left after the sale, then 50-5=45 is the number of packs sold

Then the fraction sold would be the number of packs sold divided by the total number of packs.

45 sold/50 total