At the farmers' market, Jamal bought 5/6 of a pound of string beans and 5/12 of a pound of lima beans. How many more pounds of string beans did Jamal purchase?Write your answer as a fraction or as a whole or mixed number.
Question
At the farmers' market, Jamal bought 5/6 of a pound of string beans and 5/12 of a pound of lima beans. How many more pounds of string beans did Jamal purchase?Write your answer as a fraction or as a whole or mixed number.
Solution
To find out how many more pounds of string beans Jamal purchased than lima beans, we need to subtract the weight of the lima beans from the weight of the string beans.
The weight of the string beans is 5/6 of a pound and the weight of the lima beans is 5/12 of a pound.
So, we subtract 5/12 from 5/6:
5/6 - 5/12
To subtract these fractions, they need to have the same denominator. The least common denominator of 6 and 12 is 12.
We know that 5/6 is equivalent to 10/12 (because 52/62 = 10/12).
So now we can subtract 5/12 from 10/12:
10/12 - 5/12 = 5/12
So, Jamal bought 5/12 of a pound more of string beans than lima beans.
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