Eva had 7/8 gallon of paint. His brother ivan used 1/4 gallon to paint his model boat. Eva needs at least 1/2 gallon to paint her bookshelf. Did ivan leave her enough paint? Write an equation and fill in the bar diagram to solve

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Martha Duarte

17 February, 16:01

Eva had 7/8 gallon of paint. His brother ivan used 1/4 gallon to paint his model boat. Eva needs at least 1/2 gallon to paint her bookshelf. Did ivan leave her enough paint? Write an equation and fill in the bar diagram to solve

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Camden Stein · Answer 1

Answer:.625 (yes he did leave enough

Step-by-step explanation: First you need to divde the fractions (or solve them), so 7 divided by 8 and so on Then you take subtract the paint ivan used, if it is less than half than ivan didn't leave enough for his poor sister

but there are other ways if this one is to hard