Question

Veronica is buying cubed cheese from Mr.Sands deli.she asks for 1 3/4 pounds. When Mr.Sand places some cheese in a container and weighs it,the scale shows 1 1/4 pounds. The container weighs 1/16 pounds. How many more pounds of cheese would Mr.Sand need to add to the scale to get the amount that Veronica asked for? Explain how you solved the problem.

Answer 1

Amount of cubed cheeses that Veronica wants to buy =1 3/4 pounds

=7/8 pounds
Weight of the container in which Mr. Sand places the cube =1/16 pounds 
Weight of the cubed cheese and container together =1 1/4 pounds 
=5/4 pounds 
Then the amount of cubed cheese placed by Mr.Sands =(5/4-1/16) pounds
=(20-1)/16 pounds 
=19/16 pounds
So the quanity of more cheese that Mr.Sands need to add to the scale =(7/4-19/16)pounds
=(28-19)/16pounds 
From the above debuction we can easily conclude that Mr.Sand need to add 9/16pounds of cubed cheese to fullfil the order placed by Veronica