Question

A shelf can support 3 and 3/4 pounds.

Part A: if a book weighs 3/8 of a pound, how many books can it hold?
Part B: if you add more support so the shelf can now hold 5 and 1/4 pounds , how many books can the shelf hold now? Show your work.

Answer 1

part a: ten books. because 3.75 equals 15/4 or 30/8. 10 3/8's fit into 30/8, so 10 books

part b: do basically the same thing and you will get 14 books though