Veronica is buying cubed cheese from Mr. Sands deli she asked for 1 3/4 pounds when Mr. Sand places some cheese in a container and weighs it the scale shows 1 1/4 pounds the container weighs 1/16 pound how many more pounds of cheese would Mr. Sand need to add to the scale to get the amount that veronica asked for? Explain how you solved the problem

Amount of cubed cheese that Veronica wants to buy = 1 3/4 pounds

= 7/8 pounds

Weight of the container in which Mr. Sand places the cube = 1/16 pounds

Weight of the cubed cheese and container together = 1 1/4 pounds

= 5/4 pounds

Then

Amount of cubed cheese placed by Mr. Sands = (5/4 - 1/16) pounds

= (20 - 1) / 16 pounds

= 19/16 pounds

So

The quantity of more cheese that

Mr. Sands need to add to the scale = (7/4 - 19/16) pounds

= (28 - 19) / 16 pounds

= 9/16 pounds.

From the above deduction we can easily conclude that Mr. Sand needs to add 9/16 pounds of cubed cheese to fullfil the order placed by Veronica.