There's seven-eighths of a gallon of chocolate ice cream in the freezer. There's also two-thirds of a gallon of vanilla ice cream.
[tex]\frac{7}{8}[/tex] gallons of chocolate ice-cream
[tex]\frac{2}{3}[/tex] gallons of vanilla ice-cream
To find how much more chocolate ice cream is there than vanilla
We subtract vanilla from chocolate
[tex]\frac{7}{8} -\frac{2}{3}[/tex]
To subtract fractions we make the denominators same
least common denominator is 24
[tex]\frac{7*3}{8*3} -\frac{2*8}{3*8}[/tex]
[tex]\frac{21}{24} -\frac{16}{24}[/tex]
[tex]\frac{5}{24}[/tex]
[tex]\frac{5}{24}[/tex] of a gallon
