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While taking inventory at her pastry shop, Emilia realises that she had 9/10 of a box of baking powder yesterday, but the supply is now down to 1/6 of a box. How much more baking powder did Emilia have yesterday?

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While taking inventory at her pastry shop, Emilia realises that she had 9/10 of a box of baking powder yesterday, but the supply is now down to 1/6 of a box. How much more baking powder did Emilia have yesterday?

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To find out how much more baking powder Emilia had yesterday, we need to subtract the amount she has today (1/6 of a box) from the amount she had yesterday (9/10 of a box).

Step 1: Convert the fractions to have the same denominator. The least common multiple of 10 and 6 is 30, so we'll convert both fractions to have this denominator.

9/10 becomes 27/30 (because 9 * 3 = 27 and 10 * 3 = 30) 1/6 becomes 5/30 (because 1 * 5 = 5 and 6 * 5 = 30)

Step 2: Subtract the fraction representing today's amount from the fraction representing yesterday's amount.

27/30 - 5/30 = 22/30

Step 3: Simplify the fraction. Both 22 and 30 can be divided by 2.

22/30 = 11/15

So, Emilia had 11/15 of a box more baking powder yesterday than she does today.

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