Answer: \(\frac{10}{16}\)
Step-by-step explanation:
Given Paul needs to buy \(\frac{5}{8}\) pounds of peanuts.
The scale at the store measures parts of a pound in sixteenths.
We know to find equivalent fraction we need to multiply a number to both numerator and denominator of a number.
Thus to find the measures given by store equivalent to \(\frac{5}{8}\) pound, we need to make its denominator 16 by multiplying 2 .
Thus, we multiply 2 to the numerator and the denominator such that the fraction will become
\(\frac{5\times2}{8\times2}=\frac{10}{16}\)
Thus, equivalent to \(\frac{5}{8}=\frac{10}{16}\)
