beth and noah shared a box of chocolate beth ate 5/8 and noah ate 1/4 how much chocolate did they eat and how much is left
To find out how much chocolate Beth and Noah ate, we need to add together the fractions they ate: 5/8 + 1/4.
To make the denominators the same, we need to find a common denominator. The least common multiple of 8 and 4 is 8. We can see this by listing out the multiples of each number: 8: 8, 16, 24, 32... 4: 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32...
So, our common denominator is 8, and the fraction becomes: 5/8 + 2/8 = 7/8.
Beth and Noah together ate 7/8 of the chocolates.
To find out how much chocolate is left, we need to subtract the fraction they ate from 1: 1 - 7/8 = 8/8 - 7/8 = 1/8.
There is 1/8 of the chocolates left.