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On an airplane the passengers may have chicken vegetable or tomato soup

Half of the passengers choose the Chicken soup

A third of the passengers choose tomato soup

What fraction of the passengers chose soup?

There are 240 passengers on the airplane

How many passengers chose vegetable soup?

User Rightparen
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5 votes
5/6
40
1/2 + 1/3 = 5/6
120 chose chicken and 80 chose tomato. So 40 chose vegetable
User Derron
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