Question

Kristin bought 3 1/2 pounds of apples today at the grocery store. She wants them to last all week (7 days) so she is going to split them up evenly. How many pounds of apples will Kristin be able to eat each day?

Answer 1

she would have to divide them evenly so the equation would be 3.5÷7 which would equal to 0.5 pounds

Answer 2

Given, Kristin bought
`3 (1)/(2)` pounds of apples.

She wants to last them through 1 week. We know that there are 7 days in a week. She splitted the apples for per day. We have to find how much apples kristin will eat per day.

First we have to convert the mixed fraction to improper fraction.

`3(1)/(2) = ((3)(2)+1)/(2)`

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

=
`(7)/(2)`

Kristin will eat apples in 7 days =
`(7)/(2)` pounds

So to find apples for 1 day we have to divide them. We will get,

`(7)/(2)`÷ 7

= 3.5 ÷ 7

=
`(3.5)/(7)`

=
`0.5`

We have got the required answer.

Kritin will eat 0.5 pounds of apples each day.