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A box of has 3/8 cup remaining. Another box has 1/3 cup left. How many cups of granola are there overall?

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Nov 23, 2016

$\frac{17}{24}$ $17/24$ cups of granola all together.

Explanation:

Let's let the amount of granola left be $g$ $g$ . Then:

$g = \frac{3}{8}$ $g = 3/8$ cup $+ \frac{1}{3}$ $+ 1/3$ cup

Multiply each fraction by the necessary form of $1$ $1$ to get each of them over a common denominator, in this case $24$ $24$ :

$g = \frac{3}{3} \frac{3}{8}$ $g =3/3 3/8$ cup $+ \frac{8}{8} \frac{1}{3}$ $+ 8/8 1/3$ cup

$g = \frac{9}{24}$ $g = 9/24$ cup $+ \frac{8}{24}$ $+ 8/24$ cup

$g = \frac{17}{24}$ $g = 17/24$ cups

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