Question

Tim picked 1 7/12 buckets of apples, and Fred picked 4 2/3 buckets of apples. How many more buckets did Fred pick?

Answer 1

The answer is 2 buckets

Explain:
Tim picked 1 7/12 and Fred picked 4 2/3
These as improper fractions are 19/12
And 8/3
To make these have the same denominator you would times the 8/3 by 4 to give 32/12
Take these two away, Fred has 13 more apples.
And as we calculated it with there being 12 in each bucket there would be one full bucket but we would need another bucket for the apple left
So Fred picked 2 more buckets than Tim.
Hoped it makes sense and that I helped