Question

Ms. White made 2 cakes. She gave one to Miss Glover and one to Ms. Heinen. Miss Glover cut her cake into 6 pieces and Ms. Heinen cut her cake into 6 pieces as well. Miss Glover ate 4 slices of her cake and Ms. Heinen ate 3 slices of her cake. How much cake did they eat altogether?

Answer 1

Given the information on the problem, we have that Miss Glover ate 4 slices from the 6 of the cake, then she ate 4/6 of the cake.

Then, Ms. Heinen ate 3/6 of her cake.

Adding these two fractions we get the following:

$\frac{4}{6}+\frac{3}{6}=\frac{7}{6}=1\frac{1}{6}$

therefore, Miss Glover and Ms Heinen ate 1 1/6 of cake, or which is the same, one cake and one slice