two fifth of the students walked to school what fraction did not walk?
5/5 - 2/5 = 3/5
To determine the fraction of students who did not walk to school, we need to subtract the fraction of students who walked from the total fraction of students.
Given that two-fifths of the students walked to school, this means that 2/5 of the students walked.
To find out what fraction did not walk, we subtract 2/5 from 1 (since 1 represents the whole or total fraction of students).
1 - 2/5 = (5/5) - (2/5) = 3/5
Therefore, the fraction of students who did not walk to school is 3/5.
To find out what fraction of the students did not walk to school, you need to know the total number of students. Let's assume there are 100 students in total.
If two-fifths of the students walked to school, you need to find out what fraction is left after subtracting two-fifths from a whole (100/100).
To calculate this, you can subtract the fraction that walked (2/5) from the whole (1/1). Subtracting two-fifths from a whole gives you three-fifths (3/5) as the fraction that did not walk.
Therefore, three-fifths (3/5) of the students did not walk to school.