Given:
Total amount of hamburger meat = 5½ pounds
Let's find how many ¼ pound hamburgers could be made from 5½ pounds of hamburger meat.
To find how many pound hamburger could be made divide 5½ by ¼.
Thus, we have:
To perform the division, take the following steps:
Step 1:
Convert the mixed fraction to improper fraction
Step 2:
Flip the fraction on the right and change the division symbol to multiplication
Therefore, 22 of ¼ pound of hamburger could be made from 5½ pounds of hamburger meat.
ANSWER:
22