Question

ZACH made a batch of cookies with 2/7 of a pound of butter and 2/9 of sugar. How much more butter than sugar was used?

Answer 1

0.06 pound more butter than sugar was used.

Explanation:

Given:

ZACH made a batch of cookies with 2/7 of a pound of butter and 2/9 of sugar.

Now, to find more butter than sugar was used.

First we convert the fractions into decimals:

Pound of sugar = 2/9 = 0.22.

Pound of butter = 2/7 = 0.28.

Then, to get the how much more butter is used we subtract:

Pound of butter - pound of sugar.

`=0.28-0.22`

`=0.06`

Therefore, 0.06 pound more butter than sugar was used.