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What is the difference in inches between the two least common lengths?
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- 00:03
Okay More shmoop math for aspiring lerner's here Here we
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go A scientist is collecting bugs and measures the length
- 00:11
of all his specimens as shown So what's the difference
- 00:14
in inches between the two least common lengths So is
- 00:22
we think through the problem Well that's a whole lot
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- 00:24
of bugs right Well the most important thing to note
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here is that the question asked for the difference in
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bug links Not the number of bugs themselves were working
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with inches here People not insects Will the two least
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common sizes are one inch and a third of an
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inch And you know that by looking at these little
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red dot thing he's here they each have fewer marks
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And the column that represents the bugs that measure two
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thirds Well the word difference here means subtraction So remember
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that both terms need common denominators for us teo you
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know pull this thing off So we just get one
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minus a third which is the same as three thirds
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months one third which is two thirds inches You know
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what This problem really didn't bug us too much so
- 01:03
yeah the answer's b as in
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