Question

A juice stand uses 11 cups of strawberries to make 6 pitchers of juice. Each pitcher has the same amount of strawberries. What is true about the number of cups of strawberries in each pitcher?

Answer 1

there is 1.83 cups of strawberries per pitcher


`11 / 6 = 1.8333....`

Answer 2

Answer: The number of cups of strawberries in each pitcher of juice is 1 5/6cups.

Step-by-step explanation: Take "y" to be the number of cups of strawberries in a pitcher of juice.

If 11cups were used to make 6cups of juice, then "y" cups of strawberries would be contained in 1 pitcher of juice.

11cups - - - - - - - - - - 6 pitchers

"y" cups - - - - - - - - - - 1 pitcher

"y" cups = 11/6 = 1 5/6 cups

Therefore, there's 1 5/6 cups of strawberries in each pitcher of juice