Sharing Sweets
Sophie, Ben, and Lily share a box of sweets. Sophie eats 3/8 of the sweets, Ben eats 1/4 of the sweets, and Lily eats the rest. What fraction of the sweets does Lily eat?
A box of biscuits
A box of biscuits contains 36 biscuits. 20 biscuits have foil wrappers. 15 are chocolate biscuits with foil wrappers. If 9 are not chocolate and do not have a foil wrapper, then how many chocolate biscuits are there?
Sophie eats 3/8 and Ben eats 1/4. To find out how much Lily eats, we need to first express Ben's share in eighths:
ReplyDelete1/4 = 2/8
Now, add Sophie's and Ben's portions together:
3/8 + 2/8 = 5/8
Lily eats the rest, so we subtract this from the whole:
1 - 5/8 = 3/8
Lily eats 3/8 of the sweets.