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5 February, 21:22

The length of a rectangle is 5/6 feet. The width is 3/8 feet. How much greater is the length of the rectangle than the width? A. 1/12 ft B. 1/4 ft C. 11/24 ft D. 1/2 ft

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  1. 6 February, 00:06
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    The way you figure this out is by taking the length (5/6) and subtracting the width (3/8). in order to subtract fractions, they need a common denominator. the number 24 works well for this as 8*3=24 and 6*4=24. in order to keep everything equivalent, we can only multiply by 1, but we can rewrite 1 by taking a number over itself, such as 3/3 and 4/4.

    so if we take 5/6 and multiply by 4/4 (which is still equal to 1) we get 20/24.

    next we multiply 3/8 by 3/3 (which is still equal to 1) we get 9/24.

    now that we have a common denominator, we can simply subtract them. 20/24-9/24=11/24

    this means our answer is C. 11/24 ft
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