Question

There are 40 houses in a neighborhood • company X provides electricity to 1/5 of the houses • company Y provides electricity to 3/5 of the houses • company Z provides electricity to the remaining houses In this neighborhood company Z provides electricity to how many houses

Answer 1

Answer: 1/5 or 8 houses. Company X provides electricity to 8 houses, Company Y provides to 24 houses, so that would mean Company Z provides 8

Answer 2

Answer:Company Z provides electricity for 8 houses.

Explanation:

The total number of houses in the neighborhood is 40.

Company X provides electricity to 1/5 of the houses. This means that the number of houses that Company X provides for would be

1/5 × 40 = 8

Company Y provides electricity to 3/5 of the houses. This means that the number of houses that Company Y provides for would be

3/5 × 40 = 24

Company Z provides electricity to the remaining houses. Therefore,

the number of houses that Company Z provides for would be

40 - ( 8 + 24) = 40 - 32 = 8