Answer:
1 1/2 inches
Step-by-step explanation:
To find how much more a second number is than a first number, the first is subtracted from fhe second. Here, we want to know how much more the second week total is than the first, so we subtract the first week's total from the second week's total.
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We find the second week's total by adding up the values associated with the different days in the second week.
second week's total = 1 7/8 +2 3/4 = (1 +2) +(7/8 +6/8) = 3 13/8 = 4 5/8
Then the difference is ...
second week's total - first week's total
= 4 5/8 -3 1/8 = (4 -3) +(5/8 -1/8) = 1 4/8 = 1 1/2
It rained 1 1/2 inches more this week than last week.
