please can anyone kindly help me to get the answer of this word problem,i would like someone to help me please for the word problem below......
Pat and Eric bought a large pizza that has 12 slices.Jane and Eric ate all the pizza .If Jane ate 4/6 slices, how much did Eric eat? Who ate more pizza?
Answer.12= 4/6
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"Answer.12= 4/6" makes no sense, 12 ≠ 4/6,
nor does it actually answer the question.
Jane ate 4/6 or 8/12 of the pizza.
Since the pizza had 12 slices, she ate 8 of them.
So Eric must have eaten 4 slices.
jackie finds 2/3 of pizza in the fridge. she eats 1/3 of it. what fraction of the whole pizza was left?
To find out how much Eric ate, we need to subtract the number of slices that Jane ate from the total number of slices: 12 - 4/6.
To subtract fractions, we need a common denominator. The denominator of 4/6 is 6, which is already the denominator of the whole number 12. Therefore, we can rewrite 12 as 12/1.
Now, we have 12/1 - 4/6. To subtract fractions, the denominators need to be the same. So, we need to find a common denominator for 1 and 6, which is 6.
To make the denominators of both fractions 6, we need to multiply the numerator and denominator of 12/1 by 6. This gives us (12 * 6) / (1 * 6) - 4/6.
Simplifying further, we have 72/6 - 4/6. Now that the denominators are the same, we can subtract the numerators: 72 - 4 = 68.
Therefore, Eric ate 68/6 slices of pizza.
To compare who ate more pizza, we need to convert the fractions to a common denominator. Both 12 and 68 can be divided by 4, so we can simplify 12/1 and 68/6 by dividing them both by 4.
12/1 ÷ 4 = 3/1
68/6 ÷ 4 = 17/3
So, Jane ate 3 slices of pizza, and Eric ate 17/3 slices. Comparing the fractions, we can see that 17/3 is greater than 3/1. Therefore, Eric ate more pizza.