Question

A chef has a 2 3/8-pound salmon filet. he slices the filet into 4-ounce servings.

a. how many pounds is each serving

Answer 1

To solve this, you would multiply 2 3/8 by 1/4, which is the same thing as dividing by 4. Without a calculator to divide, we must first turn 2 3/8 into an improper fraction. To do this we multiply the whole number of 2 by the denominator of 8 and add the product of 16 to the numerator of 3, which would get us with 19/8 x 1/4. The product would be 19/32, the pounds that each serving weighs.

Answer 2

Each serving will weigh 0.25 pounds.

Explanation:

A chef has a
`2(3)/(8)` pounds of salmon filet Which equals to
`(19)/(8)` pounds.

He slices the filet into 4 ounce servings.

Since 16 ounces = 1 pound

Therefore, 1 ounce =
`(1)/(16)` pound

and 4 ounces =
`(4)/(16)` pound

=
`(1)/(4)` pound

Therefore, each serving will weigh 0.25 pounds.