Question

Fabian harvests 10 pounds of tomatoes from his garden. He needs 2 2/5 pounds to make a batch of soup. If he sets aside 2.8 pounds of tomatoes to make spaghetti sauce, how many batches of soup can Fabian make? Drag numbers to write and solve an equation. Numbers may be used once, more than once, or not at all.

Answer 1

3

Explanation:

10 - 2.8 = 7.2

2 2/5 = 2.4

7.2 / 2.4 = 3

Answer 2

Fabian can make 3 batches of soup.

Explanation:

Fabian harvests 10 pounds of tomatoes from his garden.

He needs 2 2/5 or 2.4 pounds to make a batch of soup.

He sets aside 2.8 pounds of tomatoes to make spaghetti sauce.

Amount of tomatoes left =
`10-2.8=7.2` pounds

Now, the number of batches of soup he can make =
`(7.2)/(2.4)=3`

Hence, he can make 3 batches of soup.