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Answer:
or 
Step-by-step explanation:
The complete exercise is: "A chicken salad recipe calls for
pound of chicken per serving . How many pounds of chicken are needed to make
serving".
You can convert the Mixed number to a Decimal number. Divide the numerator 1 by the denominator 2 and then add the quotient to the Whole number. Then, you get:

Now divide the numerator 1 by the denominator 8 to write the fraction to a Decimal number. Then:
Let be "x" the amount of pounds are needed to make
serving.
Then, you can set up the following proportion:

Solving for "x", you get:

or 
Karla is correct. 10 x 1/2 = 5. 15 + 5 =20.
~Silver