Jenna ate 1/8 of a pizza. Mark ate 1/6 of another pizza. The pizzas are the same size, which statement correctly compares the amount of pizza that was eaten?

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John Doyle · Answer 1 · 2020-05-02T07:47:17+0000

For this case we have that both pizzas are the same size, we want to know who of the two ate more pizza.

For this, we compare both fractions:

$\frac {1} {8} * \frac {3} {3} = \frac {3} {24}\\\frac {1} {6} * \frac {4} {4} = \frac {4} {24}$

We observed that:

$\frac {4} {24}> \frac {3} {24}$

Therefore, Mark ate more pizza than Jenna

Answer:

Mark ate more pizza than Jenna

$\frac {1} {6}> \frac {1} {8}$