Question

2) Abby made 5 1/2 cups of banana pudding. She served 7/8 cup of the pudding to her kids for dessert.

How any cups of banana pudding does Abby have left
after dessert?

Answer 1

37/8

Explanation:

we are going to create 5 1/2 into an improper fraction for now, so it is easier to manipulate.

5 1/2 = 11/10

in order to find the answer, we need to set them both to a common denominator(we need to make sure they have the same denominator so it is easier to subtract)

11/2 if we just take 1 of the cups that Abby made and subtract that by 7/8 that give us the answer

11/2 - 1 = 9/2

we will now us the cup we subtracted from that and "give it to the kids"

1 = 8/8

so

8/8 - 7/8 = 1/8

so we have 1/8 leftover from that cup, so we can add that back

since 1/8 is a hard number to just add off the top of your head, we can just change the denominator of 9/2 into 8 instead of 2:

9/2 = 36/8

so

1/8 + 36/8 = 37/8

so since 37/8 cannot be simplified anymore, the answer is

37/8