Maya ate 0.4 of her 8 inch pie. Nicole ate 0.5 of her 8 inch pie. How much more did Nicole eat than Maya?
2 Answers
Nicole ate
Explanation:
The problem says the Mya ate 0.4 of her 8 inch apple pie. Well 0.4 is equal to
Since there is an "of" after 0.4, this means we need to multiply the fraction with 8. Because "of", means to multiply,
Because 8 is equal to 8/1, the problem would become:
So for Mya , she ate
Same with Nicole, she ate 0.5 of her 8 inch pie. Meaning she ate
From here, we need to figure out how many more times Nicole ate pie than Mya. So we would do :
Because we are dividing fractions, we need to use the keep, switch, and flip method. To do that, we keep the first number(4), switch the operation to multiplication, and then flip the last number (
So then,
So Nicole ate
We can also look at this logically to save me a lot of mathematical symbols: comparing Nicole
Explanation:
Both girls started with an
Mya
To answer the question, we compare
Nicole ate more than Mya at a rate of