Question

There are 3 girls and 4 boys in the Reese's family. Mr Reese's booth 6 1/2 pounds of candy. How much will each kid get

Answer 1

Each Child get = 0.928 pounds of candy

Explanation:

Total no of girls are 3

total no of boys are 4

Total no boys and girls are = 3 + 4

= 7

Now it is given that Mr Reese booth have some pound of candies and he wants to distribute it equally among each children

total candy Mr Reese have is
`6(1)/(2)`

Now converting it to proper fraction

`6(1)/(2)` =
`(6*2+1)/(2)`

=
`(13)/(2)`

Now the amount of candy have =
`(13)/(2)`

Now we have to divide it into 7 kids

so

each kid get = total candy / total children

=
`(13)/(2)`÷7

Changing the divide sign to multiplication

`=(13)/(2)*(1)/(7)`

Which becomes

`=(13)/(14)`

solving it gives

Each Child get = 0.928 pounds of candy