Question

MIguel is making a trail mix. He Uses five and one third ounces of nuts and two and tree fourths ounces of raisins Which of these is a reasonable estimate for how much more nuts Miguel uses than raisins?

(Keep as a fraction and don’t change to decimal please)

Answer 1

`(31)/(12)` more nuts would be used by Miguel then raisins

Explanation:

The computation is shown below:

Nuts used
`= 5 (1)/(3) = (16)/(3)`

Raisins used
`= 2 (3)/(4) = (11)/(4)`

Now the difference between them is

`= (16)/(3) - (11)/(4)\\\\= (64 - 33)/(12) \\\\= (31)/(12)`

Hence,
`(31)/(12)` more nuts would be used by Miguel then raisins