Question

What is There are fourteen whole snack bars on a plate. There are five friends.

Carl eats 2.5 snack bars.
Dave eats 2.7 snack bars.
Tony eats 2.5 snack bars.
Gary eats 2.0 snack bars.
Tyrone eats 2.3 snack bars.
Carl says he ate the most snack bars. Is Carl correct? There are no more snack bars on the plate. Gary looks at the snack bar pieces that each friend has left. Gary says they only ate a total of a dozen snack bars. How does Gary know that the friends only ate a total of a dozen snack bars? Show all your mathematical thinking.

Answer 1

Carl is incorrect. Dave ate a higher fraction of snack bars, by 0.2 snack bars.

Carl had .5 left of a snack bar.

Dave had .3 left of a snack bar.

Tony had .5 left of a snack bar.

Gary had .0 left of a snack bar.

Tryone had .7 left of a snack bar.

If we add the above snack bars, there is a total of two remaining snack bars, meaning they only ate 12 of 14 snack bars.