Akira placed an order for 2 sacks of brown lentils and 13/15 of a sack of green lentils. How much more brown lentils did Akira order?Write your answer as a fraction or as a whole or mixed number.
Question
Akira placed an order for 2 sacks of brown lentils and 13/15 of a sack of green lentils. How much more brown lentils did Akira order?Write your answer as a fraction or as a whole or mixed number.
Solution
Akira ordered 2 sacks of brown lentils and 13/15 of a sack of green lentils.
To find out how much more brown lentils Akira ordered, you subtract the amount of green lentils from the amount of brown lentils.
So, 2 (the amount of brown lentils) - 13/15 (the amount of green lentils) = 2 - 13/15.
To subtract a fraction from a whole number, you can convert the whole number to a fraction with the same denominator as the fraction you are subtracting.
So, 2 becomes 30/15 (because 2*15 = 30).
Now, subtract 13/15 from 30/15: 30/15 - 13/15 = 17/15.
So, Akira ordered 17/15 more sacks of brown lentils than green lentils.
This can also be written as a mixed number: 1 2/15.
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