Question

Ramon is having some friends over after a baseball game. Ramon's job is to make a vegetables dip. The ingredients for the recipe are given 3/4 cup parsley, 1/3 cup dill, 6/8 cup scallions, 5/8 cup buttermilk, 1/2 cup cream cheese, 1/16 cup lemon juice. Ramon says that he needs the same amount of two different ingredients. Is he correct? Support your answer with information from the problem

Answer 1

Yes he is right because he is using the other ingredients once so buttermilk is the one used two times

Answer 2

Yes

you need to find the lowest common denominator (lcd) for each fraction.

you can already rule out 1/16 because no other fraction would be the same as 1/16 because the denominator is too big and cannot simplify to anything else. 

you can also rule out 1/3 bc same thing no other number can be the same like trust me

so now the lcd is 8 bc 2 goes in 8, 4 goes in 8, and 8 goes in 8. convert all of the remaining fractions with a denominator of 8. so 3/4 turns into 6/8, 6/8 stays the same, 5/8 stays the same, 1/2 turns into 4/8. so there was a repeat of 6/8 so yes he is right.