Question

A garbage truck weighs 10 2/6 tons. after dumping the garbage, the truck weighed 2 1/2 tons. what was weight of garbage?

Answer 1

10 2/6= Becomes 9 8/6
-21/2= 3/6. -2 3/6

Answer 7 5/6 tons

Answer 2

The weight was 7 83/100