s. Brock baked apple pies for her family. The boys ate \( 1 / 2 \) of a pie and the girls ate \( 1 / 6 \) of pie. How much more pie did the boys eat than the girls? rite your answer as a fraction or as a whole or mixed number.

To find out how much more pie the boys ate than the girls, let's subtract the amount the girls ate from the amount the boys ate. The boys ate \( \frac{1}{2} \) of a pie, and the girls ate \( \frac{1}{6} \) of a pie. First, find a common denominator for the fractions. The least common multiple of 2 and 6 is 6. So, convert \( \frac{1}{2} \) to a fraction with a denominator of 6: \[ \frac{1}{2} = \frac{3}{6} \] Now subtract \( \frac{1}{6} \) from \( \frac{3}{6} \): \[ \frac{3}{6} - \frac{1}{6} = \frac{2}{6} \] This can be simplified to \( \frac{1}{3} \). So, the boys ate \( \frac{1}{3} \) more pie than the girls.