Tito and Luis..

Question

Tito and Luis are stuffed with pizza! Tito ate one-fourth of a cheese pizza. Tito ate three eights of a pepperoni pizza . Luis ate the other half of the mushroom pizza. All the pizzas were the same size. Tito says he ate more

pizza than Luis because Luis did not eat any pepperoni pizza. Luis says they each ate the same amount of pizza. Who is correct? Show all your mathematical thinking.

Answer 1

Tito ate 1/4 of cheese

Luis ate "the other half" it 1/4 = 1/2, then the "other half" = 1/4 too

"other half" is very ambiguous

then Tito ate 3/8 of a pepperoni of same size. 3/8+1/4 = 5/8 of pizza> 1/4 any ways you slice it

Unless Luis eating the "other half" means the rest of the cheese pizza = 3/4

then 3/8+1/4 =5/8 < 3/4 and Luis is right

Answer 2

Well, this is a fun problem!

Let's start with Tito. He ate 1/4 of one pizza and then ate 3/8 of another. Getting a common denominator, that means he ate 2/8 + 3/8, which equals 5/8.

Luis ate 1/2 of a pizza. To compare the two, we again need a common denominator. Luis ate 4/8.

Tito's 5/8 > Luis 4/8, so Tito ate more.

Answer 3

Tito: (1/4) + (3/8) = 5/8

Luis: 1/2 = 4/8