Sadie and Pedro are making fruit salads for a picnic. Sadie mixes 3 cups of melon and 1 cup of apple and Pedro mixes 8 cups of melon and 3 cups of apple. Use Sadie and Pedro’s proportions of apple to determine whose fruit salad will taste more appley.

Question

Sadie and Pedro are making fruit salads for a picnic. Sadie mixes 3 cups of melon and 1 cup of apple and Pedro mixes 8 cups of melon and 3 cups of apple. Use Sadie and Pedro’s proportions of apple to determine whose fruit salad will taste more appley. 
Sadie apple proportion (out of total) as fraction = 
Pedro apple proportion (out of total) as fraction =

GPT 3.5 · Answer

Sadie apple proportion (out of total) = 1/4
Pedro apple proportion (out of total) = 3/11

To determine whose fruit salad will taste more appley, we compare the proportions. Pedro's fruit salad will taste more appley since the apple proportion in his salad is higher than in Sadie's salad.