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  • 01-09-2020
  • Mathematics
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Of 57 cars making up a freight train, 23 are boxcar. What fraction of the cars are not boxcars?

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anonbrat
anonbrat anonbrat
  • 01-09-2020
The number of non box cars is the number of cars minus the number of boxcars.
This is 57 cars - 23 boxcars = 34 non boxcars

The fraction is the number of nonboxcars divided by the total cars
or
34/57
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g04976466Gladys
g04976466Gladys g04976466Gladys
  • 01-09-2020

Answer:

total no of cars =57

Cars which are not boxcars =57-23=34

23/34×57=1339/34

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