Question

7th Grade Math | I NEED HELP

Xander and Pedro are at an ice cream social. For every scoop of ice cream, Xander uses /8 eighth cup of fruit topping. Pedro uses one more tablespoon of fruit topping than the number of scoops. If Xander and Pedro each use the same amount of fruit topping, how many scoops of ice cream does each use?

Answer 1

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Answer:

1 scoop

Step-by-step explanation:

There are 16 tablespoons in 1 cup, so Xander uses (1/8)·(16 tbsp) = 2 tbsp of topping for each scoop of ice cream.

For 1 scoop of ice cream, Pedro will use 1+1 = 2 tbsp of topping.

Hence, both use the same amount of topping (2 tbsp) for 1 scoop of ice cream.