Veronica is buying cubed cheese from Mr. Sands deli. she asks 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 pounds. 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.

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Kaya Dunlap

2 April, 04:32

Veronica is buying cubed cheese from Mr. Sands deli. she asks 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 pounds. 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.

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Zane Mata · Answer 1

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

= (20-1) / 16 pounds

=19/16 pounds

So the quanity of more cheese that Mr. Sands need to add to the scale = (7/4-19/16) pounds

= (28-19) / 16pounds

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