A chef has a 2 3/8-pound salmon filet. he slices the filet into 4-ounce servings.

a. how many pounds is each serving

To solve this, you would multiply 2 3/8 by 1/4, which is the same thing as dividing by 4. Without a calculator to divide, we must first turn 2 3/8 into an improper fraction. To do this we multiply the whole number of 2 by the denominator of 8 and add the product of 16 to the numerator of 3, which would get us with 19/8 x 1/4. The product would be 19/32, the pounds that each serving weighs.