Question

Mrs. Brown is putting different colored sand into cups for her 4 daughters to make sand art bottles. The total amount of each color she has is shown in the table. Sand Color Weight (lb) Blue 1516 Pink 34 Purple 12 Turquoise 78 If each color is divided equally among the daughters, how much more pink sand will be available for each girl than purple sand? Write in simplest fraction form

Answer 1

11/2 lb

Explanation:

If 34 lb of pink sand and 12 lb of purple sand are equally divided among 4 daughters, you want to know how much more pink sand each girl receives.

Difference

The difference in amounts seen by each daughter will be ...

difference in amounts / number of daughters = (34 lb -12 lb)/(4 daughters)

= 22/4 lb/daughter = 11/2 lb/daughter

Each girl will have 11/2 more pounds of pink sand than purple sand.

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