Question

Annabel and Eric made 17 ounces of pizza dough. They used 5/8 of the dough to make a pizza and used the rest to make calzones. What is the difference between the amount of dough they used to make the pizza and the amount of dough they used to make calzones?

Answer 1

Answer:

$4\dfrac{1}{4}\ ounces$

Step-by-step explanation:

Annabel and Eric used $\frac{5}{8}$ of the dough to make a pizza and used the rest $1-\frac{5}{8}=\frac{3}{8}$ to make calzones.

The difference in fractions of the dough for pizza and calzones is

$\dfrac{5}{8}-\dfrac{3}{8}=\dfrac{2}{8}=\dfrac{1}{4}$

Hence, they used $\frac{1}{4}$ of dough more for pizza than for calzones.

If they used 17 ounces of the dough, then he difference in ounces is

$\dfrac{1}{4}\cdot 17=\dfrac{17}{4}=4\dfrac{1}{4}\ ounces$