In a grapefruit eating contest, sal ate 5 1/3 grapefruits in 2 minutes. if the world record is 7 1/6 grapefruits in 3 minutes, how many grapefruits would sal have had to eat in the next minute to tie the record

Sal would have to eat 1 5/6 grapefruits.

Step-by-step explanation:

We have been given that Sal ate 5 1/3 grapefruits in 2 minutes.

And the world rec-ord is 7 1/6 grapefruits in 3 minutes.

So in the 3rd minute Sal would have to eat x  grapefruits in order to tie the record.

It means we have the phrase

x plus 5 1/3 equal 7 1/6

Mathematically, we have

Subtract 5 1/3 to both sides of the equation