Question

Jessie needs 1 5/ gallons of paint to paint her room . She has only five gallons of paint . How many more gallons of paint does she need ?

Answer 1

Answer:

Jessie needs 15/24 more gallons of paint.

Words such as more than us know that this problem is subtraction, info from this problem also lets us know that we need to subtract 15/8 - 5/6

To intrept this expression:

15/8 - 5/6

45/24 - 20/24

15/24

You make the fractions, with like denominators, then subtract only the numerators.

Hope this helps!