Question

Sheldon harvest the strawberries and tomatoes in his garden. He picks 1 2/5 kg lesss strawberries in the morning tha in the afternnoon. If sheldon picks 2 1/4 in the morning, how many kilograms of strawberries does he pick in the afternoon?

Answer 1

Sheldon picks approximately 0.85 kg of strawberries in the afternoon.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find out how many kilograms of strawberries Sheldon picks in the afternoon, we need to subtract 1 2/5 kg from the total he picks in the morning.

Given that Sheldon picks 2 1/4 kg of strawberries in the morning, we can subtract 1 2/5 kg from it:

2 1/4 kg - 1 2/5 kg = 9/4 kg - 7/5 kg = 45/20 kg - 28/20 kg = 17/20 kg.

Therefore, Sheldon picks 17/20 kg or approximately 0.85 kg of strawberries in the afternoon.

Answer 2

`3(13)/(20)=3.65` kg.

Step-by-step explanation:

Let S be amount of strawberries picked in the afternoon.

We have been given that Sheldon harvest the strawberries and tomatoes in his garden. He picks 1 2/5 kg less strawberries in the morning than in the afternoon and the strawberries picked in morning are
`2(1)/(4)` kg.

To find the amount of strawberries picked by Sheldon in the afternoon we will add
`2(1)/(4)` and
`1(2)/(5)` :

`S= 2(1)/(4)+1(2)/(5)`

Upon converting our given mixed fractions into improper fraction we will get,

`S= (9)/(4)+(7)/(5)`

Now let us have a common denominator.

`S=(9*5)/(4*5)+(7*4)/(5*4)`

`S=(45)/(20)+(28)/(20)`

`S=(45+28)/(20)`

`S=(73)/(20)`

`S=3(13)/(20)`

`S=3.65`

Therefore, Sheldon picked
`3(13)/(20)=3.65` kg of strawberries in the afternoon.