Question

Aisha and Malik are making fruit salads for a picnic. Aisha mixes 4 cups of melon and 1 cup of apple and Malik mixes 13 cups of melon and 3 cups of apple. Use Aisha and Malik’s percent of melon to determine whose fruit salad will taste more melony.

Answer 1

Maliks fruit salad will taste more melony

Explanation:

To determine whose fruit salad will taste more "melony," we can calculate the percentage of melon in each fruit salad for Aisha and Malik.

For Aisha's fruit salad:

Total cups of fruit = 4 cups of melon + 1 cup of apple = 5 cups

Percentage of melon = (4 cups of melon / 5 cups of total fruit) x 100%

For Malik's fruit salad:

Total cups of fruit = 13 cups of melon + 3 cups of apple = 16 cups

Percentage of melon = (13 cups of melon / 16 cups of total fruit) x 100%

Now we can calculate the percentages:

Aisha's percentage of melon:

(4 cups of melon / 5 cups of total fruit) x 100% = 80%

Malik's percentage of melon:

(13 cups of melon / 16 cups of total fruit) x 100% ≈ 81.25%

Based on the calculations, Malik's fruit salad has a higher percentage of melon (81.25%) compared to Aisha's fruit salad (80%). Therefore, Malik's fruit salad is likely to taste more "melony" compared to Aisha's fruit salad.