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Adam baked a cake, John ate 1/6of a cake. Susan ate 1/5of what was left. How much of the original cake was left?
4 years ago

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R_scott
John ate 1/6of a cake ... so 5/6 was left

Susan ate 1/5of 5/6 ... so 2/6 of the cake has been eaten
4 years ago
Bo
thanks for the help Scott
4 years ago

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