Rose bought some spinach. She use 3/5 of the spinach on a pan of spinach pie for a party and 3/4 of the remaining spinach for a pan for her family. She use the rest of the spinach to make a salad. What faction of the spinach did she use to make the salad?

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Nikolas Clarke

2 March, 10:10

Rose bought some spinach. She use 3/5 of the spinach on a pan of spinach pie for a party and 3/4 of the remaining spinach for a pan for her family. She use the rest of the spinach to make a salad. What faction of the spinach did she use to make the salad?

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Mcgee · Answer 1

Since there is 1 whole pan of spinach pie, you would subtract 3/5 from 1 to find out how much was left after the party:

1 - (3/5) = 2/5

That is how much spinach Rose has left from the party.

Now, she has 2/5 of the spinach pie left, and her family gets 3/4 of what is left, so you need to find out how much 3/4 of 2/5 is:

(2/5) * (3/4) = 6/20=3/10

Using this number, subtract is from 2/5 and you get how much is going to be used to made the salad:

(2/5) - (3/10) = (6/10) - (3/10) = 3/10

Rose used 3/10 of the Spinach pie to make the salad.