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Mr. Spencer has 7 1/5 L of juice. Do you wanna support equal amounts of juice into three punch bowls. How many liters of juice should he poured to each bowl

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Into each bowl, he will pour

... (1/3)×(7 1/5) = (1/3)×(6 6/5) = 2 2/5 . . . liters of juice

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Here, we have elected to rewrite 7 1/5 as 6 6/5 so each part of the number (whole number, fraction) will be divisible by 3.

You may have been taught to convert 7 1/5 to an improper fraction before doing the multiplication. That method looks like ...

... (1/3)×(36/5) = 12/5 = 2 2/5 . . . . same result

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