Question

Jordan's family traveled 3/8 of the distance to his grandfather's house on Saturday. They traveled 3/5 of the remaining distance on Sunday. What fraction of the total distance to his grandfather's house was traveled on Sunday?

Answer 1

1/40

Explanation:

You have to find the amount of distance they traveled since the start of the journey. 3/5 + 3/8 is 39/40. How did we get that, you may ask?

We need to find a number that both 5 and 8 have to make. That can be 40. But how we made 5 and 8 40, we need to do the same to the top numbers. So 39/40 when we add them up. Finally, we need to substract that from the whole, and this gets you 1/40. Hope this helps.

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