Question

jack is training for a marathon. He ran 1/2 miles on tuesday,1/4 mies on wednesday, and 2/3 miles on friday. His goal is to run 22/12 miles by saturday. How many more miles does he need to run teach his goal?

Answer 1

He would need to run 5/12 more miles to reach his goal.

Explanation:

You want to get all your fractions to the denominator of 12.

1/2 = 6/12

1/4 = 3/12

2/3 = 8/12

Then you would want to add them all up, 6/12+3/12+8/12 = 17/12.

Then you subtract his goal of 22/12-17/12, to get your answer of 5/12.

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