Question

What is the sum of the product of a half and a third and the difference between a half and a third?

Answer 1

Answer:

The answer is 1.5/4=3/8= 37.5% of the cake

Step-by-step explanation:

Imagine you have a cake which is cut into four pieces. It’s your birthday, so you get three of those pieces (i know, weird rules, but i didn’t make them - or did i?). Maybe your fat momma already ate a quarter? Idk

Now your long lost twin turns up suddenly and you have to share half of what you have with him (how unfair is that!). How much will you have left?

Of course, you had 3 pieces, you give him one, you keep one and there is one left of which each of you get a half.

So you have one and a half quarter pieces of the cake, or 1.5/4. You could also have halved all of the pieces, then there would have been 8. You had 6 of them and had to give 3 of them to your twin. So you got 3/8 left.