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.