Question

John and Pam have a chocolate John want to eat 2/3 of the bar Pam want to eat 1/6 of the bar into how many equal parts should they divide the bar into ? How many pieces of the chocolate will John get ? How many pieces of the chocolate will Pam get ? ​

Answer 1

Answer:

Identify the minuend and the subtrahend then write the equation.

3/4 - 1/6 = n

Step 2: Make both fractions "similar". They should have the same denominator. Get the least common denominator. For 3/4 and 1/6, you can use 12 as common denominator. Hence, 3/4 is equivalent to 9/12 and 1/6 can be expressed as 2/12.

Step 3: 9/12 - 2/12 = 7/12. Now that they have the same denominators, perform the subtraction process.

Then, John ate 7/12 more of the candy than Sandy.

Hope that helps.