Question

A bottle of laundry detergent is 3/5 full. Jamie uses 3/10 of the bottle to do her laundry. Estimate what fraction of the bottle of laundry detergent is left.

Answer 1

3/10

Explanation:

Because the fractions don't have the same denominator, the first step is to make them equal. Because the denominators here are 5 and ten, we can simplify 3/5 to 6/10. The next step is to subtract 3/10 from 6/10 to get 3/10. Because the question is asking what fraction of detergent is left, the answer is 3/10.