Professor shepherd weighed two pieces of metal for an experiment. the piece of iron weighed 7/12 of a pound and the piece of alu minum weighed 1/2 of a pound. how much more did the piece of iron weigh than the piece of aluminum?
1 answer:
Answer:
The iron weighed 1/12 pound more than the aluminum.
Step-by-step explanation:
The weight of the aluminum is given as 1/2 pound. But that can also be written as 6/12 pound.
This is a subtraction problem (subtracting fractions...so also a common denominator problem)
In order to subtract fractions you have to get a common denominator.
7/12 - 1/2
= 7/12 - 6/12
= 1/12
The iron is 1/12 pound heavier than the aluminum.
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