SOLUTION: Jaime Bailey is chair of a department at a college. Jaime has a budget in which one fourth of the money is for​ photocopying, two sevenths of the money is for​ compute

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Question 1092418: Jaime Bailey is chair of a department at a college. Jaime has a budget in which one fourth
of the money is for​ photocopying, two sevenths of the money is for​ computer-related expenses, and the rest of the money is for student tutors in the foreign languages lab. What fraction of​ Jaime's budget is for student​ tutors? So I've tried adding the two together with x.

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THE FIFTH GRADER SOLUTION:
The fraction of the budget not spent on student tutors is
.
So, the fraction spent on student tutors is
.

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