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prealgebra intermediate

Problem

Lincoln Elementary School has 120 students. Of these 120 students, ride the bus to school and have a parent drive them to school. If the rest of the students walk to school, what fraction of students walk to school?
Solution
We first have to find what fraction of students walk to school. Since the total fraction of students is or 1, we must find:To solve this expression, we have to get common denominators. In this case, the common denominator is 120.

To get this common denominator for the fraction , multiply the numerator and denominator by 24 to get .

To get the common denominator for , multiply the numerator and denominator by 10 to get . So now we have: Notice that can be written as , so our final answer is .
Final answer
\frac{11}{60}