If you ordered two pizzas for dinner Friday. Date ate 3/4 of one pizza, Jenny ate 1/8 of a pizza, Danny ate 1/4 of a pizza, and Mom ate 1/2 of a pizza. What fraction of a pizza was left for a midnight snack?
2-(3/4+1/8+1/4+1/2)=
2-(3/4+1/4 + 1/8+4/8)0
2-1-5/8=3/8
To find out what fraction of a pizza was left for a midnight snack, we need to determine how much of the pizza was eaten by each person and then subtract that from the total amount of pizza.
Let's start by calculating how much pizza was eaten by each person:
- Dave ate 3/4 of a pizza.
- Jenny ate 1/8 of a pizza.
- Danny ate 1/4 of a pizza.
- Mom ate 1/2 of a pizza.
To find the total amount of pizza eaten, we add up the fractions:
3/4 + 1/8 + 1/4 + 1/2
To add these fractions, we need to find a common denominator. The common denominator for 8, 4, and 2 is 8. Let's convert all the fractions to their equivalent fractions with a denominator of 8:
6/8 + 1/8 + 2/8 + 4/8
Now that all the fractions have the same denominator, we can add them:
(6 + 1 + 2 + 4)/8
13/8
So, the total amount of pizza eaten by everyone is 13/8 of a pizza.
To find the amount of pizza left for a midnight snack, we need to subtract the amount eaten from the total:
1 - 13/8 = 8/8 - 13/8
We can simplify this by first subtracting the numerators and keeping the denominator the same:
(8 - 13)/8
-5/8
Therefore, there is -5/8 of a pizza left for a midnight snack. This means that there is less than a whole pizza left, indicating that there is not enough pizza for a midnight snack.