Question

Kendall feeds her cat a total of

cup of food every day. She feeds it cup of food in the evening. Solve an equation to find how much food she gives to the cat the rest of the day. Write your answer in fraction form only.

Answer 1

We can start by using the information given to set up an equation:

Total amount of food = amount of food in the evening + amount of food the rest of the day

We know that Kendall feeds her cat
cup of food in the evening, so that is the first part of the equation:

Total amount of food =
1
4
cup of food in the evening + amount of food the rest of the day

We also know that the total amount of food for the day is
cup, so we can substitute that in for "Total amount of food":

1
4
=
1
4
+ amount of food the rest of the day

Now we can solve for "amount of food the rest of the day" by subtracting
1
4
from both sides of the equation:

amount of food the rest of the day =
1
4
–
1
4
=
0
4
=
0