Sheet # 125/Banana
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You peel a banana to eat what is inside. This worksheet will tell you how much banana you really eat.
1. Veena weighed a banana. It was 200 grams. She removed the peel and weighed the peel. The peel weighed 60 grams.
a) How much did the meat inside the banana weigh?
b) Write a fraction to show how much of the banana is peel. Reduce the fraction. Also convert the fraction to a decimal.
c) Write a fraction to show how much of the banana is meat (edible portion of banana). Reduce the fraction. Also convert the fraction to a decimal.
2. Kelly ate three bananas. Each banana weighed 150 grams.
a) If 7/10 of a banana was edible, how many grams of banana did she eat?
b) What fraction of the banana was peel? How much did the three peels weigh?