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Cloud [144]
3 years ago
6

At Thanksgiving, Mrs. Jones overcooked the turkey so all but 5 of it had to be thrown away. The 8 people at dinner that

Mathematics
2 answers:
irina [24]3 years ago
7 0

Answer:

b

Step-by-step explanation:

VashaNatasha [74]3 years ago
3 0

<em>The question has inconsistent or incomplete data, so I'm filling the holes with key data.</em>

Answer:

<em>Every people at dinner received one-tenth of the original turkey= 0.1</em>

Step-by-step explanation:

<u>Proportions</u>

If some fraction a/b of a whole total M is to be computed and later removed, we proceed as follows

* Compute the portion to be removed as a/b*M

* Subtract it from the total quantity: M-a/b*M=M(1-a/b)

I'm assuming 1/5 of the turkey was lost due to overcooking. It means that (1-1/5) of the turkey remained for dinner, that is, 4/5 of the turkey.

Each people at dinner received the same amount of the remaining, so we must divide 4/5 by 8, to get 4/40, or 1/10. It means that every people at dinner received one-tenth of the original turkey

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