Question

One cup of dog food weighs 1 4/5 ounces. A police dog eats 6 1/3 cups of food a day. How many ounces does the dog eat each day.

Answer 1

To make it easier you could try to make the 1.4/5 to a decimal which would be 1.8 1/3 is 6.33, approximately. You can now multiply the numbers, 1.8 & 6.33 to find your answer which should be around 11.394.

Answer 2

11.39 ounces of dog food a day .

Explanation:

One cup of dog food weighs 1
`(4)/(y5)` ounces and a police dog eats 6
`(1)/(3)` cups of food a day. We can use conversion factors to convert the number of cups to ounces. We have the follwing information:

1 cup = 1
`(4)/(y5)`

∴ 1 cup = 1.8 ounces

and 6 1/3 = 6.33 cups

We can determine the ounces the dog eats each day as:

= 6.33 cups of dog food × 1.8 ounces/1 cup = 11.39 ounces of dog food a day

The dog eats 11.39 ounces of dog food a day