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A bookcase has 3 shelves with a total of 24 books. The top shelf has 8 mystery books. The middle shelf has 10 math books. The bottom shelf has 6 science books. Two books are now taken off each shelf. What fraction of the books remaining on the three shelves are math books? Express your answer as a common fraction.

 Jul 29, 2020
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Start off by subtracting 2 from 10, which is 8.

 

Subtract 6 from 24 as two books are taken off each of the 3 shelves. 

 

This leaves us with 8/18, which simplifies to 4/9.

 

Please correct me if I'm wrong smiley.

 Jul 29, 2020
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thank you so much that is correct! :))

laureli  Jul 29, 2020

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