Question

John has 12 pounds of dog food and is going to separate it into 3/4 pound portions.how many portions of dog food will he have

Answer 1

That would be 12 / 3/4   = 12 * 4/3  = 4*4 = 16 portions

Answer 2

16 portions.

Explanation:

John has amount of dog food = 12 pounds

He wants to separate this food for his dogs weighing each portion =
`(3)/(4)` pounds

Let x be the number of portions of dog food.

Then amount of dog food =
`(3x)/(4)` pounds

Now we plug in the values in the equation

12 =
`(3x)/(4)`

x =
`(4* 12)/(3)`

=
`(48)/(3)`

= 16 portions

There will be 16 portions of the dog food weighing
`(3)/(4)` pounds each.