Mrs. Roxas bought 20 kilograms of sweet mangoes. She gave 5 2/3 kilograms to the frontliners assigned near their village and 3 3/8 kg to their neighbors. How many kilograms of sweet mangoes were left?​

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Answer:

  10 23/24 kg

Step-by-step explanation:

Subtract the numbers given away from the number Mrs. Roxas bought:

  20 -5 2/3 -3 3/8 = 20 -5 -3 -(2/3+3/8) = 12 -25/24 = 10 23/24

Mrs. Roxas has 10 23/24 kg of sweet mangoes left.

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Additional comment

Without worrying too much about "common denominator", you can always add fractions with the formula a/b +c/d = (ad +bc)/(bd). You can always reduce the sum, if necessary. Subtraction is just addition of a number that has a negative sign.

It is often convenient to deal separately with the integer and fractional parts when adding or subtracting mixed numbers.

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