Question

Lily’s mother asks Lily to buy 4 pounds of flour from the grocery store. The weights on the flour packages are in ounces. The ratio of pounds to ounces is 1 : 16. What is the amount of flour in ounces that Lily needs to buy?

Answer 1

Hello,


Lily has to multiply 16 times 4 which is 64 ounces.


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jamesr2

Answer 2

64 ounces of flour

Explanation:

To convert the amount of ounces needed when lily´s mother asked to bring 4 pounds is just matter of multoplying the number of ounces that one pound has by the number of pounds needed you can obtain the amount of ounces needed.

So if 1 pound= 16 ounces

Then 4 pounds would be:

You just have to multiply 4 by 16 and divided by one, that is 64.