# In the cafeteria

There are 18 students in Jacob’s homeroom. Six students bring their lunch to school. The rest eat lunch in the cafeteria. In simplest form, what fraction of students eat lunch in the cafeteria?

Correct result:

x =  0.6667

#### Solution:

$x=\frac{18-6}{18}=\frac{2}{3}=0.6667$

We would be pleased if you find an error in the word problem or inaccuracies and send it to us. Thank you!

Tips to related online calculators
Need help calculate sum, simplify or multiply fractions? Try our fraction calculator.

## Related math problems and questions:

• Soup
47% of pupils at the school to eat in the canteen, 1/47 of students who eat in the canteen eat lunch soup. a) What percentage of pupils who eat in the canteen and eat soup for lunch? b) What percentage of all pupils of school eat lunch soup?
• Report 2
A School reports students to teacher ratio of 6:1. If there are 45 teachers in the School, how many students are there?
• Guess a fraction
Tom was asked to guess a fraction. The sum of 1/2 the numerator and 1/3 of its denominator is 30. If Tom subtracts 36 from its denominator, the fraction becomes 1/3. What is the fraction that Tom was asked to guess? (Leave your answer in simplest form)
• Shirts
In a classroom, 1/6 of the students are wearing blue shirts and 2/3 are wearing white shirts. There are 36 students in the class. How many students are wearing a shirt other than blue or white?
• Students
There are 2/6 girls out of 1050 students at the school. Of these, 4/5 have another sibling. How many girls are in school? How many boys are in school? How many girls do not have a sibling?
• Scouts 4
4/7 of the students in a school are boys. If 3/8 of the boys are scouts, how many scouts are there in a school of 1878 students?
The size of two internal angles of a triangle ABC are α=6/18π and β=7/18π. Calculate the size of the third angle.
• Lunch
Jane eats whole lunch for the 30 minutes. Which part of the lunch is eaten in 180 seconds?
• School library
The school library contains 6300 books. With this constitutes 7% of professional books for teachers 18% interest books and encyclopedias for pupils and the rest of the fairy tales. How much are which books?
• Fraction
Determine for what x fraction ?:
• News
From 28 students buy magazine 10 The economist students, 10 Pravda students and 18 students don't buy any of these magazines. How many students buy both magazines?
• Dividing walnuts into crates
There are 8 and 2 over 3 pounds of walnuts in a container, which will be divided equally into containers that hold 1 and 1 over 5 pounds. This would fill n and 4 over 18 containers. What is n?
• Hours
The lesson lasts 45 minutes. For the week, students have 18 lesson hours. How many are the actual hours?
• Trees
From the total number of trees in the orchard, there are two-fifths pearls and apples are three eighty. The rest of the trees are 9 ceremonial. How many trees are in the set?
• The Bakery
At a Bakery, ⅗ of the baked goods are pies, and the rest are cakes. ⅓ of the pies are coconut. ⅙ of the cakes are angel food. What fraction of all the baked goods at the Bakery are coconut pies? What fraction of all the baked goods at the Bakery are are a
• Class
The class has 18 students. Everyone knows inline skating or skateboarding. Inline skating can ride 11 students on a skateboard 10. How many ride on inline skates and on skateboard?
• Write 2
Write 791 thousandths as fraction in expanded form.