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Question:
Nick and Tasha are buying supplies for a camping trip. They need to buy chocolate bars to make s’mores, their favorite campfire dessert. Each of them has a different recipe for their perfect s’more. Nick likes to use 1/2 of a chocolate bar to make a s’more. Tasha will only eat a s’more that is made with exactly 2/5 of a chocolate bar.
Answer:
The fraction of a chocolate bar will Nick and Tasha will use in total if they each eat one s'more is [tex]\frac{9}{10}[/tex] bar.
Step-by-step explanation:
Here, we are meant to learn how to add fractions and to know about the essence of a common denominator
The portion of the chocolate that Nick makes an s'more with is 1/2
The portion of the chocolate that Tasha makes an s'more with is 2/5
Therefore the fraction of the chocolate bar Nick and Tasha use in total if they each eat one s'more is 1/2 + 2/5
Where [tex]\frac{1}{2}[/tex] + [tex]\frac{2}{5}[/tex] multiplying the fraction [tex]\frac{1}{2}[/tex] by [tex]\frac{5}{5}[/tex] and [tex]\frac{2}{5}[/tex] by [tex]\frac{2}{2}[/tex] wee have
[tex]\frac{5}{5}[/tex]× [tex]\frac{1}{2}[/tex] + [tex]\frac{2}{2}[/tex]× [tex]\frac{2}{5}[/tex] = [tex]\frac{5}{10}[/tex] + [tex]\frac{4}{10}[/tex] = [tex]\frac{9}{10}[/tex] bar
Therefore the fraction of the chocolate bar that would be left is
1 bar - [tex]\frac{9}{10}[/tex] bar = [tex]\frac{1}{10}[/tex] bar.
Here is the complete question
Nick and Tasha are buying supplies for a camping trip. They need to buy chocolate bars to make s’mores, their favorite campfire dessert. Each of them has a different recipe for their perfect s’more. Nick likes to use 1/2 of a chocolate bar to make a s’more. Tasha will only eat a s’more that is made with exactly 2/5 of a chocolate bar.
Answer:
Both Nick and Tacha will use 9/10 of the chocolate bar
Step-by-step explanation:
Nicks share of the chocolate bar is 1/2(fraction of the chocolate bar need to make the s'more
And Tasha requires 2/5 to make her own s'more.
Then if both of them share a single chocolate bar,then it will be:
2/5(Tasha's share) + 1/2(Nick's share)
= 9/10 of a single chocolate bar will be used.
In case they were interested to know the amount remaining, it will be:
1 - 9/10 = 1 1/10