SOLUTION: I take a chocolate bar from the refrigerator, eat 2/3 of it and return the rest. What portion remains? My friend takes out this portion and eats 2/5 of it. What portion of the o

Question 996695: I take a chocolate bar from the refrigerator, eat 2/3 of it and return the rest. What portion remains? My friend takes out this portion and eats 2/5 of it. What portion of the original bar did he eat? How much of the original bar is left?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39621) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Take the process one step at a time.

Eat of 1; is still.

Eat of ; there still is of not yet eaten. This not-yet-eaten part is what remains of the original 1 bar.

Final calculation:
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