Question

A sugar bowl holds 237 grams. You have a one kilogram bag of sugar. Estimate how many bowls of sugar you can fill from the bag.

Answer 1

The required number of bowls are 5.

Explanation:

Given : A sugar bowl holds 237 grams. You have a one kilogram bag of sugar.

To find : Estimate how many bowls of sugar you can fill from the bag?

Solution :

1 bowl can hold 237 gram of sugar.

We have, 1 kg of sugar or 1000 gram of sugar.

According to question,

237 gram of sugar can hold in 1 bowl.

So, 1 gram of sugar can hold in
`(1)/(237)` bowl.

1000 gram of sugar can hold in
`(1000)/(237)` bowl.

1000 gram of sugar can hold in
`4.21` bowl.

Which means, The required number of bowls are 5.

As 4 bowls have
`237* 4=948` grams of sugar.

Sugar left is 1000-948=52 grams

That 52 grams is filled into 5th bowl.