Sam needs 7
8
cup mashed bananas and
5
6
cup mashed strawberries for a recipe. He wants to find whether he needs more bananas or more strawberries.

How can he write
7
8
and
5
6
as a pair of fractions with the smallest common denominator?

Sam can write .

Frank is lending $1,000 to sarah for two years. frank and sarah agree that frank should earn a real return of 4 percent per year. instructions: a. the cpi (times 100) is 100 at the time that frank makes the loan. it is expected to be 113 in one year and 127.7 in two years. what nominal rate of interest should frank charge sarah?