Question

jeff is making a fruit salad. he has 1 1/3 cups blackberries and 2 1/2 cups of strawberries. how many cups of blackberries does he have for every 1 cup of strawberries

Answer 1

The number of cups of blackberries Jeff has for every 1 cup of strawberries is 8/15 while making a fruit salad.

What are the mixed numbers?

Mixed numbers are the number which are used to write the whole number and the fraction number combined. As the whole number and fraction number are expressed together, thus these numbers are called mixed numbers.

Jeff is making a fruit salad. He has 1 1/3 cups blackberries. In the fractional number,

$\text{Blackberries}=1\dfrac{1}{3}\\\text{Blackberries}=\dfrac{3+1}{3}\\\text{Blackberries}=\dfrac{4}{3}$

Jeff has 2 1/2 cups of strawberries. In the fractional number,

$\text{strawberries}=2\dfrac{1}{2}\\\text{strawberries}=\dfrac{4+1}{2}\\\text{strawberries}=\dfrac{5}{2}$

Thus, the number of cups of blackberries does he have for every 1 cup of strawberries,

$r=\dfrac{\dfrac{4}{3}}{\dfrac{5}{2}}\\r=\dfrac{4\times2}{3\times5}\\r=\dfrac{8}{15}$

Hence, the number of cups of blackberries Jeff has for every 1 cup of strawberries is 8/15 while making a fruit salad.

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