Answer:
40.42 ounces.
Explanation:
Initial volume of water: 58 ounces
"A group of blue jays came by and drank 3.18 ounces", it means that they substracted 3.18 ounces, therefore we do the following:
58 ounces - 3.18 ounces= 54.82 ounces.
After that, "...a vulture swooped in and drank fourteen and two fifths ounces of the water", this means that 14 ounces + 2/5 ounces were substracted from the bath.
As for right now, there are 54.82 ounces, let's calculate how much there was after the vulture passed by:
54.82 ounces - 14 ounces= 40.82 ounces.
40.82 ounces - 2/5 ounces, let's convert the fraction to a decimal and substract:
40.82 ounces - 0.4 ounces= 40.42 ounces.
Therefore, the final volume of water remaining in the bath is 40.42 ounces.
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This problem could be solved by adding up all the substractions and substracting the total amount from the initial volume of water in the bath. This would be the operation:
58 - (3.18 + 14 + 2/5)=
58 - (3.18 + 14 + 0.4)=
58 - (17.58)=
40.42 ounces.