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Claire picked some apples. She used 2/5 of the apples to make jam, She gave 1/3 of the remainder to her neighbor. What fraction of the apples did she give to her neighbor? Can someone please explain step by step please

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Lets imagine that you have a circle. That circle represents all of the apples that Claire has.

Now let's imagine this. You take 2/5 of that circle out, you completely wipe it away. These 2/5 are the apples she took out to make the jam.

Ok, so now you are left with 3/5 of the circle, or the apples.

You need to take out 1/3 of those apples to give to your neighbor. So we need to find 1/3 of 3/5.

So, draw 3 small circles on a piece of paper.

Those each represent 1 part of the 3/5.

So what is 1/3 of the three fifths?

1/5 because one circle is 1/3 of 3/5!

So the neighbor recieved 1/5 of the apples!

I hope this helped!

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wizard123

Step 1:
Find remainder after making jam.
\(1 - \frac{2}{5} = \frac{5}{5} - \frac{2}{5} = \frac{3}{5}\)

Step 2:
Find 1/3 of remainder.
The word "of" refers to multiplication.
\(\frac{1}{3} * \frac{3}{5} = \frac{3}{15} = \frac{1}{5}\)

Therefore she gave 1/5 of apples to her neighbor.

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