Amber had 3/8 of a cake left after her party she wrapped a piece that was 1/4 of the original cake for her best friend what freshener part did she have left over for herself

Fraction of cake that was left for Amber =

Step-by-step explanation:

Given:

Amber had of a cake left after her party.

Amber wrapped a piece of cake for her friend that was of the original cake.

To find the fractional part of cake that was left for Amber.

Solution:

Fraction of cake left Amber had after party =

Fraction of cake she wrapped for her friend =

To find the fractional part of cake that was left for Amber we will subtract of the cake from   of the cake.

∴ Fraction of cake that was left for Amber =

To subtract fractions we need to take LCD

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LCD  will be =8 as its the least common multiple of 4 and 8.

To write as a fraction with common denominator 8 we multiply numerator and denominator with 2.

So, we have

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Then we simply subtract the numerators.

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∴ Fraction of cake that was left for Amber =