Miranda has 5/8 of a yard of ribbon. if she used 1/3 of it to make a hair bow, how much ribbon would she have left. PLEASE HELP ME

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1. Answer: 5/12

   Step-by-step explanation:

   Step 1

   Whenever you have something OF  something, you just mulltiply.

   1/3 of  5/8=  

   1/3×5/8

   5/24

   She used 5/24, and started with 5/8

   5/8-5/24= 5/12  left

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2. [tex]\textsf {Finding the LCM of the 2 quantities :}[/tex]

   [tex]\implies \mathsf {3 \times 8}[/tex]

   [tex]\implies \mathsf {LCM = 24}[/tex]

   [tex]\textsf {Now, take the given quantites with our LCM as the denominator}\\\textsf {and subtract used value from the total :}[/tex]

   [tex]\implies \mathsf {\frac{5}{8} – \frac{1}{3} \times \frac{5}{8}}[/tex]

   [tex]\implies \mathsf {\frac{15}{24} – \frac{5}{24}}[/tex]

   [tex]\implies \mathsf {\frac{10}{24} = \frac{5}{12}}[/tex]

   [tex]\textsf {Therefore, Miranda will have}[/tex]  [tex]\mathsf {\frac{5}{12}}[/tex] [tex]\textsf {of the ribbon left. }[/tex]

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