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Megan served cereal to her three children for breakfeast. If she started with a full box and gave 1/8 of the box to each child what fraction of the box of cereal remains

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The answer for this question is 5/8
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Answer:

5/8

Explanation:

since it says she has THREE children she gave each children a fraction of it which would be 1/8 each and in total of that would be 3/8 so she will have 5/8 left.

Hope that helped =)

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