Question

sarah used 2.5 cups of cheese in a dish that serves 10 people amyn used 1.6 cups of cheese in a dish that serves 8 people how much more cheese is in one serving of sarahs dish

Answer 1

`(1)/(20)` more cheese in Sarah's dish than Amyn.

Explanation:

To find this, we need to get the two fractions,
`(2.5)/(10)` and
`(1.6)/(8)` to a common denominator. The closest one is a multiple of 4 for
`(2.5)/(10)` and a multiple of 5 for
`(1.6)/(8)` .

This makes both fractions much more comparable, and we have

`(10)/(40)` for Sarah's dish

`(8)/(40)` for Amyn's dish.

Knowing Sarah has
`(2)/(40)`'s more cheese in her dish, we can still simplify, so after dividing 40 by 2, we get
`(1)/(20)`, the simplest form of how much more cheese Sarah has in her dish than Amyn,