Sheldon harvest the strawberries and tomatoes in his garden. he picks 1 2/5 kg lesss strawberries in the morning tha in the afternnoon. if sheldon picks 2 1/4 in the morning, how many kilograms of strawberries does he pick in the afternoon?

kg.

Step-by-step explanation:        

Let S be amount of strawberries picked in the afternoon.

We have been given that Sheldon harvest the strawberries and tomatoes in his garden. He picks 1 2/5 kg less strawberries in the morning than in the afternoon and the strawberries picked in morning are kg.

To find the amount of strawberries picked by Sheldon in the afternoon we will add and  :

Upon converting our given mixed fractions into improper fraction we will get,

Now let us have a common denominator.

Therefore, Sheldon picked kg of strawberries in the afternoon.