Question

Mark and his friends ordered two pizzas are the same size the first pizza is cut into six slices of equal size the second pizza is cut into four slices of equal size each person plan to take two slices of pizza Mark concludes that he would get more pizza by taking one slice from each pizza instead of Mark and his friends ordered two pizzas of the same size the first pizza is cut into six slices of equal size the second pizza is cut into four slices of equal size each person plan to take two slices of pizza Mark concludes that he would get more pizza by taking one slice from each pizza instead of 2 Slices from the first pizza explain why Mark is correct be sure to include a number comparison using less than or greater then in your explanation

Answer 1

1/6 < 1/4 so 1/6 would equal 2/12 and 1/4 would equal 3/12 so which means if you take one from each it would be 5/12 but if you took 2 from the first one it would only be 2/12 which is why you need to read correctly because THE REASON MARK IS CORRECT IS BECAUSE 5/12 IS GREATER THAN 2/12