Question

Phil baked two kinds of pies. Each pie pan was the same size. He served 1/2 of the blueberry pie. He served 1/4 of the apple pie. If each pie had 8 pieces to start, what fraction in eighths of the apple pie did he serve? How many more pieces of the blueberry pie than the apple pie did he serve? --Please help!

Answer 1

Phil served 2/8 of an apple pie because in order to have a common denominator, you need to multiply 1/4 by 2/2. 
Phil served 2 more pieces of blueberry than apple pie because 1/2(4/4) = 4/8, and 4/8 - 2/8 = 2/8.

Answer 2

$\dfrac{2}{8}$  fraction of the apple pie was served.

2 more pieces of blueberry pie was served than that of apple pie pieces.

Given that:

Both blueberry pie and apple pie were divided in 8 equal parts each.

Phil was served 1/2 of blueberry pie.

Phil was served 1/4 of the apple pie.

To compute the fraction in eights of apple pie, we do multiplication of current fraction with 8 parts:

1 apple pie = 8 pieces of apple pie

1/4 apple pie = $\dfrac{1}{4} \times 8$ pieces of apple pie = 2 pieces of apple pie.

1 blueberry pie = 8 pieces of blueberry pie.

1/2 blueberry pie = $\dfrac{1}{2} \times 8$ pieces of blueberry pie = 4 pieces of apple pie.

Thus. 1/4 apple pie is 2 pieces out of 8 pieces of apple pie or written as  $\dfrac{2}{8}$ fraction of apple pie.

And the served blueberry pies are 4 pieces but served apple pies are 2 pieces, thus the counts of pieces of blueberry pie is 2 more than the count of pieces of apple pie served.

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