The answer is:
Samir picks of peppers in the evening.
To solve this problem, we must remember the way to add or subtract mixed numbers.
We must remember the way of adding or subtracting fractions:
Also, if we need to add or subtract mixed numbers with different denominators, we need to follow the next steps:
- Add or subtract the whole number part
- Add or subtract the fractional numbers.
- Put together both, whole number addition or subtraction result and the addition or subtraction of the fractional numbers.
So,
Now, if Samir picks 3 5/8 less peppers in the afternoon than in the evenning, and if he picks 4 3/6 peppers in the afternoon, so:
Let be x the number of peppers that he picks in the evening, so:
Then, simplifying we have:
So, Samir picks of peppers in the evening.
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