Bill reads 1/5 of a book on monday he reads 2/3 of a book on tuesday if he finish reading the book on wednesday what fraction of the book did he read on wednesday

total book =1

1/5 + 2/3 + wed = 1

get a common denominator of 15

1/5 * 3/3 + 2/3 * 5/5 + wed = 1 * 15/15

3/15 + 10/15 + wed = 15/15

combine like terms

13/15 + wed = 15/15

subtract 13/15 on each side

wed = 15/15-13/15

wed = 2/15

He read 2/15 of the book on Wednesday

something that characterises a right triangle is the fact that we may use pythagoras' theorem to find any one of its sides given that we have the length of the other two sides. here, we have the length of the hypotenuse, √(87) yd, and one other side, √(23) yd, thus we can easily find the length of the remaining side using pythagoras' theorem as defined below:

c^2 = a^2 + b^2, where c is the length of the hypotenuse, and a and b are the lengths of the other two sides.

thus, given that c = √(87) and a = √(23), we may substitute these into the formula we defined above to get:

c^2 = a^2 + b^2

(√87)^2 = (√23)^2 + b^2 (substitute c = √87 and a = √23 into the equation)

87 = 23 + b^2 (evaluate (√87)^2 = 87 and (√23)^2 = 23 - remember that the square root of a number, squared will equal that very same number)

64 = b^2 (subtract 23 from both sides)

√64 = b (take the square root of both sides)

8 = b (evaluate √64 = 8)

therefor, the length of the unknown leg in the right triangle is 8 yd (first answer).

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