Question

19. Rick shared his bag of grapes withfriends. He gave /210of the bag to Melissaand /410 of the bag to Ryan. What fractionof the bag of grapes does Rick have left?Show your work.

Answer 1

Rick started with 10/10 of the grapes because he had all of them at the start.

Then he gave 2/10 and 4/10 of the grapes away.

10/10 - 2/10 - 4/10 = 4/10 = 2/5 left

answer: Rick had 2/5 of the grapes left.