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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

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of all his specimens as shown So what's the difference

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in inches between the two least common lengths So is

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we think through the problem Well that's a whole lot

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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

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yeah the answer's b as in

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