SOLUTION: Tom and Sally ordered a pizza. Tom ate 1/3 of the pizza and Sally had 2/5. How much pizza is left over? I added the fractions and got 11/15 for how much they ate but how do I figu

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Question 862319: Tom and Sally ordered a pizza. Tom ate 1/3 of the pizza and Sally had 2/5. How much pizza is left over?
I added the fractions and got 11/15 for how much they ate but how do I figure out how much is left?

Found 2 solutions by ewatrrr, josmiceli:
Answer by ewatrrr(24785)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Hi
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Answer by josmiceli(19441)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!


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You can say the whole pizza is
, or a whole pizza
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After you take away ,
you have
of the pizza left

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