Question

Louis food out six different size at the picnic at the end of the picnic he noticed this about about the pies one whole apple pie was eaten and 3/4

Answer 1

Louis had 6 different pies. Some of them were eating and we want to know how much pie there's left. First, we have the information that one apple pie was entirely gone. From this, we know there were 5 pies remaining.

`6-1=5`

Then, he also noticed the other apple pie had 3/4 gone. Which means that 1/4 of this second apple pie was leftover.

`1-(3)/(4)=(1)/(4)`

Applying this same logic, we can deduct all the slices that were eaten from the total amount of pie we had at first to get the leftovers.

`\begin{gathered} 6-1-(3)/(4)-(1)/(2)-(1)/(8)-(5)/(8)-(3)/(4) \\ =5-(1)/(2)-(6)/(4)-(6)/(8) \\ =5-2-(3)/(4) \\ =3-(3)/(4) \\ =2+(1)/(4) \end{gathered}`

What we've done in this last equation, was taking our first amount of pies (6), subtract the whole apple pie that was eaten (1), the three quarters that were eaten from the other apple pie (3/4) and the other eaten slices from the others.

Which means, the result of this calculation is our amount of leftover slices.

We still have 2 and a quarter pies.