Question

You have 23 pound of cheese. You split up the cheese into 4 containers so each container weighs the same. Which of these statements is true? Each container has 14 pound of cheese. 23 pound is 4 times as heavy as each container of cheese. 4×23 equals the amount of cheese in each container. Each container has 13 of the cheese.

Answer 1

Each of the 4 containers would contain 5.75 pounds of cheese when 23 pounds of cheese are distributed evenly. None of the statements provided are correct.

Step-by-step explanation:

To determine the weight of cheese in each container, we divide the total weight of the cheese by the number of containers. The question says you have 23 pounds of cheese and are splitting it into 4 containers.

Divide 23 pounds by 4 to find the weight of cheese in each container:

23 ÷ 4 = 5.75 pounds

Therefore, each container has 5.75 pounds of cheese. The statement 'Each container has 14 pound of cheese' is incorrect. The statement '23 pound is 4 times as heavy as each container of cheese' is also incorrect because 23 divided by 4 is 5.75, not 5.25. The statement '4×23 equals the amount of cheese in each container' is incorrect because 4×23 would give us the total amount of cheese multiplied by 4, which doesn't make sense in this context. The statement 'Each container has 13 of the cheese' would only be true if 3 represented a quantity that, when multiplied by 4, equals 23, but in this case, it does not.

Answer 2

23 pounds is 4 times as heavy as each container. Since 23 is divided by four containers...there is 5.75 pounds of cheese in container. 5.75 multiplied by 4 is 23.