Question

Brenda is planning her birthday party. she wants to have 11.76 liters of punch, 9.8 gallons of ice cream, 4.76 pounds of fudge, and 27 guests at the birthday party. drag and drop the correct expression into each box to complete each statement. brenda and each guest eat the same amount of ice cream. how many gallons of ice cream will each person eat? each person will eat gallons of ice cream.

Answer 1

To find out how much ice cream each guest will eat, divide 9.8 gallons of ice cream by the 27 guests, after converting gallons to cups, and then convert the per person result back to gallons if necessary.

Step-by-step explanation:

To determine the amount of ice cream each person will eat at Brenda's birthday party, we need to divide the total amount of ice cream by the number of guests. Brenda has 9.8 gallons of ice cream and there will be 27 guests. So, we perform the division: 9.8 gallons ÷ 27 guests.

First, we convert the gallons to a smaller unit (cups, for example) to make it easier to divide and then convert back to gallons for the final answer. There are 16 cups in a gallon, so 9.8 gallons is equal to 9.8 × 16 cups. Multiplying this out gives us 156.8 cups of ice cream.

Now, we divide 156.8 cups by 27 guests to find out how many cups each guest will get and then convert back to gallons if necessary.

Step-by-step:

• Convert gallons to cups: 9.8 gallons × 16 cups/gallon = 156.8 cups
• Divide by the number of guests: 156.8 cups ÷ 27 guests
• Convert the per person amount back to gallons if needed by dividing by 16