Question

George painted his room yesterday. he use 1/8 of the paint in can in the morning and 5/8 of the paint in the afternoon.his much of the did he use?

Answer 1

Let's say X represents a full can of paint
If X represents a full can on paint, then:

- 1/8 of X was used in the morning
- 5/8 of (7/8 of X) was used in the afternoon

So you would add the two values together to get a sum

1/8X + 5/8(7/8X)
= 1/8X +35/64X
=43/64X

Therefore 43/64 of the pain can was used

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Now I'm assuming that the question is saying that George used 5/8 of the remaining paint from the morning. If they were talking about 5/8 in terms of the original amount of pain then you would simply do the following:

1/8 + 5/8
= 6/8
= 3/4