Question

As part of an enterprise day, Guramar and Gurnam baked 4 cakes. They gave 1/2 of one cake away to the staff. In the morning they sold 2 1/3 cakes and in the afternoon they sold 1 1/8. How much cake did they have left?

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Answer 1

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Answer:

1/24 of a cake

Explanation:

The remaining amount of cake was ...

4 -1/2 -2 1/3 -1 1/8 = 4 -12/24 -2 8/24 - 1 3/24 = (4 -2 -1) -(12 +8 +3)/24

= 1 -23/24 = 1/24

1/24 of a cake was left

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Basically, crumbs.