1. A chocolate bar is made up of 12 equal pieces.Tom ate 3/4 of a chocolate bar. Sarah ate 2/3 of the same kind of chocolate bar.
Tom said he ate more chocolate than Sarah. Is he correct?
sunny eats 2/3 of a chocolate bar. what fraction of the chocolate bar is left?
To determine if Tom is correct about eating more chocolate than Sarah, we can compare the fractions of the chocolate bar that each of them consumed.
First, let's find out how much of the chocolate bar Tom ate. It is given that he consumed 3/4 of the chocolate bar.
To calculate this, we need to multiply the number of equal pieces in the chocolate bar, which is 12, by the fraction representing what Tom ate, which is 3/4:
Tom's consumption = (12 * 3/4) = 9 pieces of chocolate
Now, let's find out how much of the chocolate bar Sarah ate. It is given that she consumed 2/3 of the chocolate bar.
Again, we can multiply the number of equal pieces in the chocolate bar, which is 12, by the fraction representing Sarah's consumption, which is 2/3:
Sarah's consumption = (12 * 2/3) = 8 pieces of chocolate
Comparing their results, Tom ate 9 pieces of chocolate, while Sarah ate 8 pieces. Therefore, Tom ate more chocolate than Sarah, and he is correct in claiming that he consumed more.
3/4 = 9/12
2/3 = 8/12