Question

The amount of rhubarb in the original recipe is 3 1/2 cups. Using what you know of whole numbers and what you know of fractions explain how you could triple that mixed number

Answer 1

Well first things first is you got to turn 3 1/2 into a mixed number. All i did was multiply 3x2 and added 1 which gave me 7 so that was my numerator. And for my denominator i kept the 2. So all you got to do now is multiply the fraction by 3 and make sure you put a 1 under 3. It gives you 21/2 so just divide that since its improper. And then your answer would be 10 1/2. Hope this helped you!
10 1/2
+ 1 7 3 21 2)21
3---- = ---- x ----- = ------ - 2
x 2 2 1 2 ---------
01
- 0
-----------
1

Answer 2

`10(1)/(2)` cups.

Explanation:

The amount of rhubarb in the original recipe is =
`3(1)/(2)` cups.

=
`(7)/(2)` cups

Using this amount we have to triple that mixed number.

So we have to multiply this fraction by 3.

`(7)/(2)` × 3

=
`(21)/(2)`

=
`10(1)/(2)` cups

We will get
`10(1)/(2)` cups when we triple the number of
`3(1)/(2)`