Claire picked some apples. she used 2/5 of the apples to make jam, she gave 1/3 of the remainder to her neighbor. what fraction of the apples did she give to her neighbor? can someone explain step by step

Of course! Let's start!

Lets imagine that you have a circle. That circle represents all of the apples that Claire has.

Now let's imagine this. You take 2/5 of that circle out, you completely wipe it away. These 2/5 are the apples she took out to make the jam.

Ok, so now you are left with 3/5 of the circle, or the apples.

You need to take out 1/3 of those apples to give to your neighbor. So we need to find 1/3 of 3/5.

So, draw 3 small circles on a piece of paper.

Those each represent 1 part of the 3/5.

So what is 1/3 of the three fifths?

1/5 because one circle is 1/3 of 3/5!

So the neighbor recieved 1/5 of the apples!

I hope this helped!

Comment if you have any questions!!
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Step 1:
Find remainder after making jam.


Step 2:
Find 1/3 of remainder.
The word "of" refers to multiplication.


Therefore she gave 1/5 of apples to her neighbor.