Jess puts 1 2/3 tomatoes in each salad. Dott ate 1 1/2 salads yesterday and 2 7/10 salads today. How many more tomatoes did she eat today? Explain how you solved this problem.

1 and 2/3 per salad

1 and 1/2 salad eaten then 2 and 7/10 salad eaten

subtract salads eaten

1 and 1/2=1 and 5/10

2 and 7/10-1 and 5/10=1and 2/10=1 and 1/5

convert to improper fraction

6/5=salads eaten

so 1 and 2/3 to imporper is 5/3

so multiply amount per salad by salad eaten

5/3 times 6/5=30/15=2

answer is 2 more tomatoes