The cupboard
Simon and Fiona are sharing a cupboard. If Simon’s things take up 2/5 of the space and Fiona’s things take up 2/7 of the space, what fraction of the cupboard is empty?
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To start off, we need to add 2/5 and 2/7. This gives us an answer of 24/35. Then, we can do 35/35 - 24/35 to find out the empty space which gives us the answer of 11/35
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