A carpenter charges a one-time fee of $50 plus $35 for each hour on the job. If n is the number of hours on the job and c is the
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Answer:
You have 2 and 1/2 pizzas and your friend has 5/6 of a pizza.
Step-by-step explanation:
You have 3 1/4 pizzas. If you get rid of 3/4 of a pizza, you will end up with 2 2/4 pizzas.
To make it easier, you can just change the values into improper fractions: 3 1/4 = 13/4
13/4 - 3/4 = 10/4
10/4 = 2 2/4 pizzas
(2 2/4 = 2 1/2)
Anyways! You now have 2 and a half pizzas. You have 3 times the amount of pizza that your friend has. In other words, your friend has 1/3 the amount of pizza that you have. You can solve for this in two ways, whichever way you solve it is up to you.
- You can solve this problem by dividing the amount of food you have by 3:
which equals 0.8333... (the 3 is repeating). But you can just keep your final answer in fraction form if you want to:
- You can solve this problem by multiplying 1/3 to the amount of food you have:
You have 2 and 1/2 pizzas and your friend has 5/6 of a pizza.