Marcial found the following recipe for fruit salad that he wanted to try to make for his birthday party. He decided to double the recipe.

Question

Fruit Salad
4
1
2
cups thinly sliced rhubarb
15 seedless grapes, halved
2
9
orange, sectioned
10 fresh strawberries, halved
1
4
apple, cored and diced
5
9
peach, sliced
1 plum, pitted and sliced
1
5
cup fresh blueberries



What is the new amount for the oranges, apples, blueberries, and peaches? Enter your answers in simplified form.




The amount of rhubarb in the original recipe is 4
1
2
cups. Using what you know of whole numbers and what you know of fractions, complete the explanation for how you could double that mixed number.


If you double 4, it becomes
8
. If you double
1
2
, it becomes 1. Add 8 + 1 =
9
.

Answer 1

I DIDNT GET THAT MUCH COULD YOU EXPLAIN IT A LITTLE BETTER