Question

Your family loves turkey! Uncle Bill ate 1/4 of the turkey, cousin Chris ate 15% of the turkey, cousin Timmy ate 0.3 of the turkey and little Dave ate 12% of the turkey. Who ate the most turkey?
What fraction (or decimal, or percent) of the turkey was eaten?

Show your work here:



Defend your answer in writing:

Answer 1

(1 / 4) = .25
.25 * 100% = 25%
Uncle Bill ate 25%
Cousin Chris ate 15%
.3 * 100% = 30%
Cousin Timmy ate 30%
Little Dave ate 12%
You ate none.

Cousin Timmy ate the most, 18% of the turkey is left, and 82% of the turkey was eaten.


Defend my work in writing:

I converted my fractions and decimals to percents to find the different percents eaten for each person.