Question

The lunch lady has 3 pounds of lasagna. If she makes 1/6 pound servings using this amount of lasagna, how many servings can she make?

Answer 1

She can make 18 servings.

Explanation:

We can simply multiply 3 by 6 to get the number of servings.

This is the same as dividing 3 by 1/6 since dividing is the same as multiplying the reciprocal.