Jessie needs 1 5/8 gallons of paint to paint her room. She only has 5/6 of a gallon of paint. How many more gallons of paint does she need?

Answere: Jessie needs 15/24 more gallons of paint.

Explanation:

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.

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