Question

Morita works in a florist shop and makes flower arrangements. She outs 10 flowers in each case, and 2/10 of the flowers are daisies. If Morita makes 4 arrangements, how many daisies does she need. Show how you can check your answer. Last weekend, Morita used 10 daisies to make flower arrangements. How many flowers other than daisies did she use to make the arrangements? Explain your reasoning.

Answer 1

8 daisies

Explanation:

You have to multiply the amount of vases by daisies.

Answer 2

Givens

• Morita outs 10 flowers in each case.
• 2/10 of the flowers are daisies.
• Morita makes 4 arrangements.

We know that Morita arranges 4 cases, each of them has 10 flowers.

So, if there are 2/10 daisies per case, that means each can contains 2 daisies.

But, she did 4 arrangements. There are 2x4 = 8 daisies in total.

Now, last weekend, Morita used 10 daisies to make flower arrangements, and we know she tend to use 2/10 of the flowers as daisies, that means this fraction represents daisies,

`(2)/(10)x=10\\ x=(100)/(2)\\ x=50`

Therefore, there are 50 flowers in total.