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In this GED math problem, figure out what fraction of Serena's monthly income is spent on groceries

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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour brought to you buy groceries We're not sure why

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we always get so philosophical Only talk about him Maybe

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it's Because they're in day cards Yeah we want Sorry

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lisa Grocery cart All right Serena makes three grand a

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month If she spends g dollars on groceries each month

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and what fraction of her monthly income does she spend

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on groceries And here the potential answer is brought to

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you by jenny craig Okay so we've got serena who

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makes three grand a month So she's either a teacher

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a tollbooth collector in california and this question wants to

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know what fraction of her income she spends on groceries

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were told to use g is the amount she spends

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each month So really all this question is asking is

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do we know how to take this information and express

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it accurately to show what we're supposed to show To

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wrap her head around this let's plug in a number

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for a g Well let's say she spends three hundred

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bucks a month on grocery Well we could go with

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two hundred eighty four dollars ninety two cents but let's

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Go easy on ourselves here If she spends three hundred

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bucks a month on groceries and she makes three grand

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a month well then she's spending ten percent of her

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income right Well it makes sense but how do we

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get that ten percent Well by putting three hundred our

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g in a fraction over the three thousand when we

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divide those two Numbers we arrive at point 1 or

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ten percent So then our expression needs to be g

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over three thousand answer a way Sure hope serena is

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living rent free someplace Otherwise she may want to start

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