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 apple proportion (out of total) as fraction =

Pedro apple proportion (out of total) as fraction =

Sadie’s fruit salad will be more appley.
Pedro’s fruit salad will be more appley.
The two fruit salads will be equally appley.

Answer 1

To determine whose fruit salad will taste more appley, we can compare the proportions of apple in each salad.

Sadie's fruit salad:
Apple proportion = 1 / (3 + 1) = 1/4

Pedro's fruit salad:
Apple proportion = 3 / (8 + 3) = 3/11

Comparing the two proportions, we see that Sadie's fruit salad has a higher proportion of apple compared to Pedro's fruit salad. Therefore, Sadie's fruit salad will taste more appley.