Homework Help: math

Posted by leanna on Saturday, February 9, 2013 at 3:01pm.

a woman had 400 oranges in a basket. after selling 1/5 of them, she found that 1/8 of the remainder were bad. how many of the remainder were good?

math - Steve, Saturday, February 9, 2013 at 3:03pm
after selling 1/5, she had 320
1/8 of 320 = 40 were bad, so
280 were good

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