A bottle of juice holds 3/8 gallon when it is full, if 1/3 of the juice has been poured out, how much juice is left? Is this subtracting fractions or multiplying??
Both. First multiply.
3/8 * 1/3 = 3/24 = 1/8
Now subtract.
3/8 - 1/8 = 2/8 = 1/4 of a gallon
ok sorry i didn't read question properly. cut me some slack i did it in my head though.
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To find out how much juice is left after pouring out 1/3 of the juice from a full bottle holding 3/8 gallon, you need to perform subtraction of fractions.
Here's the step-by-step process to get the answer:
1. Start with the initial amount of juice, which is 3/8 gallon.
2. Calculate what 1/3 of the juice is by multiplying 3/8 with 1/3. To multiply fractions, multiply the numerators (top numbers) to get the new numerator and multiply the denominators (bottom numbers) to get the new denominator. Thus, (3/8) multiplied by (1/3) equals (3*1)/(8*3) = 3/24.
3. Subtract the amount of juice poured out (1/3) from the initial amount of juice (3/8). To subtract fractions, the denominators must be the same, so you need to make the denominators equal. To do this, find a common denominator, which in this case is 24 (the least common multiple of 8 and 3). Multiply the numerator and denominator by the same value to maintain the value of the fraction. Thus, (3/8) becomes (9/24) and (3/24) becomes (8/24). Now, subtract the fractions: (9/24) - (8/24) = 1/24.
Therefore, there is 1/24 gallon of juice left in the bottle after pouring out 1/3 of the juice.
subtract
3/8 - 1/3
9/24 - 8/24= 1/24