Question

There is 3/4 of a box of Frosted Flakes remaining Lynsey eats 2/5 of the remaining cereal What fraction of the box did Lynsey eat

Answer 1

1/16483784._6/5@;=€%3$_%;$€

Answer 2

Given,

There is ¾ of a box of cereal.

She ate ⅖ of the remaining cereal.

To find,

The fraction of the total cereal that she ate.

Solution,

We can solve this mathematical problem by using the normal arithmetic method.

Let, the total box of cereal = 1

The remaining amount of cereal = ¾

She ate = ⅖ of the remaining cereal

The cereal is,

For ¾ amount of cereal the eaten amount is = ⅖

For 1 amount of cereal the eaten amount is = ⅖ × ¾ = 3/10

Hence, she ate 3/10 of the total cereal box.