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Matthew used 1/5 of a box of flour for cooking and 3/4 of the remainder to make bread. The rest of the flower was packed equally into 5 containers. What fraction of the total amount of flour was in each container?

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So, if the total amount of the flower was x

then he used \(\frac{1}{5}x\) for cooking and \(\frac{4}{5}x\) was left

then he used \(\frac{4*3}{5*4}x\)= \(\frac{3}{5}x\) to make bread and \(\frac{4}{5}x-\frac{3}{5}x\)= \(\frac{1}{5}x\) was left.


so the \(\frac{1}{5}x\) was packed into 5 containers, each container had

\(\frac{1}{5*5}x\), which is \(\frac{1}{25}x\) of the total amount






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