Question

Joe has a total of $36.00 in his wallet. He 1/4 his total money to buy lunch, 1/12 of his total money to buy a milkshake, 3/8 his total money to buy supplies for a school project. How much money does Joe have left?

Answer 1

Joe has $5.5 left

Explanation:

To find the answer to this question, we need to find the amounts of each of the fractions of his money he used. We can do this by multiplying 36 by the decimal value of the fraction.

36*.25=9. Since 1/4 is equal to .25, we multiply it by 36 to find 1/4 of it.

36*.5=18 1/2 is also equal to .5

36*.375=13.5 since 3/8 is .375 in fraction form.

Now we subtract everything.

36-9=27

27-18=19

19-13.5=5.5

Joe has 5.5 dollars left

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