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When Denise had one cat, she needed to serve 1 3/5 tins of cat food each day. Now that Denise has adopted a second cat, she needs to serve a total of 4 1/5 tins each day. How much extra food is needed to feed the second cat?Write your answer as a fraction or as a whole or mixed number.

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When Denise had one cat, she needed to serve 1 3/5 tins of cat food each day. Now that Denise has adopted a second cat, she needs to serve a total of 4 1/5 tins each day. How much extra food is needed to feed the second cat?Write your answer as a fraction or as a whole or mixed number.

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Solution

To find out how much extra food is needed to feed the second cat, we need to subtract the amount of food needed for one cat from the total amount of food needed for two cats.

The amount of food needed for one cat is 1 3/5 tins each day.

The total amount of food needed for two cats is 4 1/5 tins each day.

So, the calculation will be:

4 1/5 (total food for two cats) - 1 3/5 (food for one cat) = extra food needed for the second cat.

First, convert the mixed numbers to improper fractions:

4 1/5 = 21/5 and 1 3/5 = 8/5

Then subtract:

21/5 - 8/5 = 13/5

Convert the improper fraction back to a mixed number, we get 2 3/5.

So, Denise needs an extra 2 3/5 tins of food each day to feed the second cat.

This problem has been solved

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