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Given:
Kim picked 250 pounds of pears yesterday and 287 pounds of pears today.
To find:
The percentage increase of amount of pears picked by Kim.
Solution:
We know that,
Therefore, the percentage increase of amount of pears picked by Kim is 14.8%.
We have to divide 9/10 by 3/12.
if we divide by a fraction, we can instead multiply by it's inverse:
so now we count:
so we can cut exactly 3 pieces!
if we divide by a fraction, we can instead multiply by it's inverse:
so now we count:
so we can cut exactly 3 pieces!