100/225 square feet of your bakery will be used as your storefront, where customers come to visit. the rest will be for storage and baking. In simplest form, what fraction of the space will be for storage and baking?Someone's work(225-110)/225125/2255/9how did you get (225-110)? if it's 100/225
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Okay, so the answer is 5/9. “Someone” was correct. The subtracting of 100 from 225 came from the 100 already being used out of that 225. If you subtract that, you’re left with how much space left. Place those back into the fraction and simplify and you get our answer.