Question

A recipe needs two and one sixth cups of walnuts and eight and one eighth cups of peanuts. How many cups of 14 or 48 as the domenater nuts are needed for the recipe in all? Please answer!!! It has to have 14 or 48 as the domentater

Answer 1

`10(14)/(48)`

Explanation:

given data:

recipe = two and one sixth cups of walnuts
`2(1)/(6)`

and eight and one eighth cups of peanuts
`8(1)/(8)`

solution:

`= 2(1)/(6) + 8(1)/(8)\\\\= 10 ((1)/(6) + (1)/(8) )\\`

`= 10(7)/(24)\\or\\= 10(14)/(48)`