Question

jess puts 1 2/3 tomatoes in each salad. Dott ate 1 1/2 salads yesterday and 2 7/10 salads today. How many more tomatoes did she eat today? Explain how you solved this problem.

Answer 1

First of all... Who would name their kid dott??!?!!

Decimal time:
1 2/3= 1.666, forever
2 7/10= 2.7
1 1/2= 1.5

1.6666 forever times 1.5 = the amount of tomatoes she ate yesterday. = 2.5

1.666 forever times 2.7 = the amount of tomatoes she ate today. = 4.5

4.5 - 2.5 = 2

She ate 2 more tomatoes today than she did yesterday.

Answer 2

1 and 2/3 per salad
1 and 1/2 salad eaten then 2 and 7/10 salad eaten
subtract salads eaten
1 and 1/2=1 and 5/10
2 and 7/10-1 and 5/10=1and 2/10=1 and 1/5
convert to improper fraction
6/5=salads eaten

so 1 and 2/3 to imporper is 5/3

so multiply amount per salad by salad eaten
5/3 times 6/5=30/15=2
answer is 2 more tomatoes