Question

At a butcher shop karl bought 9 1/4 lb of beef and some pork he left with 22 9/25 lb of meat. Express the number of pounds of pork he bought using a decimal

Answer 1

After converting the weights to decimals, Karl bought 13.11 pounds of pork by subtracting the weight of the beef (9.25 pounds) from the total weight of meat (22.36 pounds).

Step-by-step explanation:

To find out how many pounds of pork Karl bought, we need to subtract the weight of the beef from the total weight of the meat he left with. Karl bought 9 1/4 pounds of beef, which is 9.25 pounds when expressed as a decimal. He left with 22 9/25 pounds of meat in total, which is 22.36 pounds when converted to a decimal. The calculation to find the weight of the pork is as follows:

Total weight of meat - Weight of beef = Weight of pork

22.36 lb - 9.25 lb = 13.11 lb

Therefore, Karl bought 13.11 pounds of pork.