Sarah is making soup and used 1 4/5 cups of potatoes. She has eaten 1/2 of the soup. How many cups of potatoes has she eaten?(1 point) Responses 9/10 of a cup 2 3/10 cups 1 3/10 cups
To find out how many cups of potatoes Sarah has eaten, we need to multiply the amount of soup she has eaten (1/2) by the amount of potatoes she used in the whole soup (1 4/5).
1/2 * 1 4/5 = (1/2) * (9/5) = 9/10
So, Sarah has eaten 9/10 of a cup of potatoes. Therefore, the correct response is 9/10 of a cup.
To find out how many cups of potatoes Sarah has eaten, we need to multiply the amount of potatoes used in the soup by the fraction of the soup that she has eaten.
The amount of potatoes used in the soup is 1 4/5 cups.
The fraction of the soup that she has eaten is 1/2.
To calculate the amount of potatoes she has eaten, we can multiply 1 4/5 by 1/2:
(1 4/5) * (1/2) = (9/5) * (1/2) = 9/10
Therefore, Sarah has eaten 9/10 of a cup of potatoes.
To find out how many cups of potatoes Sarah has eaten, we first need to calculate how many cups of soup she started with.
Given that Sarah has eaten 1/2 of the soup, we can say that the remaining 1/2 represents what she has not eaten. Let's assume the original amount of soup was S cups. Therefore, the amount she has eaten can be expressed as (1/2) * S.
Next, we know that Sarah used 1 4/5 cups of potatoes in making the soup. Since she has eaten 1/2 of the soup, we can calculate how many cups of potatoes she has eaten by multiplying the fraction of the soup she ate by the amount of potatoes used.
So, the calculation would be: (1 4/5) * (1/2).
First, let's convert the mixed number 1 4/5 to an improper fraction.
1 4/5 = (5 * 1 + 4) / 5 = 9/5.
Now, let's multiply this by 1/2:
(9/5) * (1/2) = 9/10.
Therefore, Sarah has eaten 9/10 of a cup of potatoes.
So, the correct answer is: 9/10 of a cup.