A bag of potatoes weighs 10 1/2 pounds of the potatoes in the bag 1/6 are rotten. What is the weight of the rotten potatoes?

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Mateusz Szlosek · Answer 1 · 2021-09-19T15:43:24+0000

Answer:

1 3/4 pounds are rotten

Step-by-step explanation: Change to improper fraction and multiply.

21/2 × 1/6 = 7/4

Change back to mixed number

7/4 = 1 3/4 That's one and three fourths.