Question

You are buying art supplies. Buying brushes will use 1/4 of your savings paint will use half of your savings if you buy both what fraction of your savings will you have left

Answer 1

Assume that 1/1, or 1, equals your whole savings.

In order to find the savings left from the two items, you need to subtract 1/2 and 1/4 from 1.

   1 - 1/4 - 1/2
= 3/4 - 1/2
= 3/4 - 2/4
= 1/4

Therefore, you have 1/4 of your savings left