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in a classroom 5/8 of the students are wearing blue shirts and 1/4 for wearing white shirts there are 24 students in the classroom how many are wearing shirts other than blue shirts and

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Answer:

  3

Step-by-step explanation:

Those wearing a shirt of another color are ...

  1 - 5/8 -1/4 = 8/8 -5/8 -2/8 = 1/8

of the total number of students in the classroom

  (1/8)×(24 students) = 3 students . . . . wearing another color

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Alternate solution

With the given information, you know ...

  (5/8)(24) = 15 . . . students wear blue

  (1/4)(24) = 6 . . . . students wear white

  24 -15 -6 = 3 . . . students wear another color

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