Amanda bought a bag of parsnips that weighed 3 7/8 pounds. she also bought a bag of turnips that weighed 2 1/2 times as much as the parsnips. how many pounds of turnips did amanda buy?

Hello! To find out how many pounds of turnips Amanda bought, all you have to do is multiply fractions straight across. 3 7/8 in improper fraction form is 31/8 and 2 1/2 in improper fraction form is 5/2. 31/8 * 5/2 is 155/16 or 9 11/16 in mixed number form. There. Amanda bought 9 11/16 pounds of turnips.

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