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Detective Pi has 5 1/5 quarts of orange juice. She likes to have 2/5 of a quart every morning how may mornings can detective pi have orange juice before she runs out

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she can have 13 mornings before running out of orange juice.
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We are given

Detective Pi has 5 1/5 quarts of orange juice

we can write in fraction form

we get


=(5*5+1)/(5)


=(26)/(5)

so,

Detective Pi has
=(26)/(5) quarts of orange juice

Let's assume

total number of mornings is x

She likes to have 2/5 of a quart every morning

so,

total quantity of juice = total number of morning*She likes to have 2/5 of a quart every morning

total quantity of juice is


=(2)/(5) x

now, we can set it equal to 26/5


(26)/(5)=(2)/(5) x

now, we can solve for x

we can multiply both sides by 5


(26)/(5)*5=(2)/(5) x*5


26=2x

divide both sides by 2

we get


x=13

so, total number of mornings is 13..........Answer

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