Jasmine is short on frosting! She works in a bakery and has 15 cakes to frost, but she is short 4 7/8 cups on the amount of frosting required.

She decides that she will spread the frosting she has among the 15 cakes. She makes a sign for the cakes and names them by the value that represents the amount of frosting on each cake compared to the amount it should have.

What does the sign say?

Make 4 7/8 into an improper fraction, that would be 39/8. So now you have to multiply 15/1 times 39/8 which would be 585/8 now you have to simplify that, which turns into 73

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topeadeniran2 topeadeniran2 · Answer 2 · 2021-10-29T12:43:36+02:00

The sign that will be put on the cake is -13/40 to indicate the shortage of frosting.

Number of cakes to frost = 15

Amount of frosting required = 4 7/8

In this case, since she used the frosting that she had but was still short of some frosting and a sign was made to represent this. Then, it'll be:

= 4 7/8 ÷ 15

= 39/8 × 1/15.

= 13/40

Therefore, the sign that will be put on the cake is -13/40.

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