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Ashley is making lemonade. She has 4/5 cup of sugar. Each glass of lemonade requires 1/20 cup of sugar. How many glasses of lemonade can Ashley make?

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Answer:

16 Glasses

Explanation:

Since she has 4/5 cup of sugar and it requires 1/20 of a cup to make a single glass of lemonade, in order to get how many cups she can make we need to get the LCM (lowest common multiple) of both fractions (4/5 and 1/20). The LCM of 5 and 20 is 20. Now instead of 4/5 we have 16/20 and 1/20 remains the same. Since it takes 1/20 cup of sugar to make 1 glass of lemonade and Ashley has 16/20 cup of sugar, she can make 16 cups.

User Yzernik
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Answer:

16 glasses

Explanation:

4/5 divide by 1/20 = 16 glasses

Therefore, Ashley can make 16 glasses of lemonade.

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