Question

Hassem and his family cut an apple pie into 5 equal slices and a blueberry pie into 10 equal slices. They ate 3/5 of the apple pie. If they ate the same fraction of the blueberry pie, how many slices of the blueberry pie did they eat?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Hassem and his family ate 6 slices of blueberry pie.

Explanation:

The question states that Hassem and his family cut the blueberry pie into 10 equal slices.

Hassem and his family ate 3/5 of the apple pie, if they ate the same fraction of the blueberry pie, this implies that Hassem and his family ate 3/5 of the blueberry pie.

Since the blueberry is cut into 10 equal slices, the number of slices Hassan and his family ate is simply 3/5 of 10 =
`(3)/(5)` × 10 =
`(30)/(5)` = 6 slices.

Therefore, Hassem and his family ate 6 slices of blueberry pie.