Question

Miss Rodriguez is going to use 6 1/3 yards of material to use two dresses the larger dress requires 3 2/3 yards of material how much material will miss Rodriguez have left to use on the similar dress

Answer 1

You need to do the subtraction 6 1/3 minus 3 2/3.

Since we can't subtract 2/3 from 1/3, we borrow 1 from the 6 leaving 5. The 1 we borrow from the 6 is the same as 3/3. We add that tot eh 1/3 of the 6 1/3, so now we have 5 4/3, which is the same as 6 1/3. Now we can subtract.

6 1/3 ------> 5 4/3

- 3 2/3 ------> - 3 2/3

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2 2/3

Answer: 2 2/3 yards