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Claudia had 7 over 12 boxes of pencils but 4 over 12 boxes of the pencils were broken. After she threw out the broken pencils, how many boxes of pencils were left?

  1. 1 third boxes
  2. 1 fourth boxes
  3. 2 over 5 boxes
  4. 2 over 12 boxes

The correct answer is: 1 fourth boxes


    Number of boxes of pencil =7 over 12
    No of boxes of pencil that were broken =4 over 12
    No of boxes left = Total no. of boxes - boxes broken
    equals 7 over 12 minus 4 over 12
not stretchy rightwards double arrow fraction numerator 7 minus 4 over denominator 12 end fraction
not stretchy rightwards double arrow 3 over 12
    not stretchy rightwards double arrow 1 fourth boxes were left

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