Question

Mrs. Vacarro sliced a banana into 5 pieces. After eating one slice, she gave ⅘ of the original total to her toddler. After her child was finished, there were ⅖ of the banana slices left. What expression would you use to find out what fractional amount of banana Mrs. Vacarro's toddler ate?

Answer 1

Answer : the toddler ate 2/5 pieces

Explanation: there were 5 existing pieces, mrs. Vacarro had 1 and gave the rest to her toddler which were 4 pieces. The remaining pieces were 2 which means the toddler ate 2/5 pieces

Answer 2

The fractional amount of banana Mrs. Vacarro's toddler ate is 2/5.

What is a word problem?

A word problem is a verbal description of a problem situation. It consists of few sentences describing a 'real-life' scenario where a problem needs to be solved by way of a mathematical calculation.

For the given situation,

Mrs. Vacarro sliced a banana into 5 pieces.

Number of slices she gave to her toddler = 4/5

Number of slices left after her toddler had finished eating = 2/5

Thus number of slices toddler ate,

⇒ $\frac{4}{5} -\frac{2}{5}$

⇒ $\frac{4-2}{5}$

⇒ $\frac{2}{5}$

Hence we can conclude that the fractional amount of banana Mrs. Vacarro's toddler ate is 2/5.

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