Question

Salma and Luke are making fruit salads for a picnic. Salma mixes 4 cups of
melon and 3 cups of apple and Luke mixes 7 cups of melon and 5 cups of
apple. Use Salma and Luke’s percent of melon to determine whose fruit salad
will taste more melony.

Salma percent of melon (to nearest whole number) =

Luke percent of melon (to nearest whole number) =

Answers

  1. Answer: Salma’s fruit salad will have around 57% melon and Luke’s fruit salad will have around 58% melon. Therefore, Luke’s fruit salad will taste more like a melon.
    Step-by-step explanation:
    Salma uses 4 cups of melons out of the 7 total cups of fruit. 4/7 is around 57 percent.
    Luke uses 7 cups of melons out of the 12 total cups of fruit. 7/12 is around 58 percent.

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