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Question 1A farmer uses five bushels of strawberries to make a large batch of jam. The jam is poured into 20-ounce jars. To transport the jam to the market for sale, the farmer uses crates that hold 16 jas lfabushel is equivalent to 64 pints, how many crates will the farmer need for this batch of jam?Show all your work!

Answer 1

In 1 pint, there are 16 ounces. Thus, 64 pints can be converted to ounces as follows:

`\begin{gathered} 64\text{ pints}=\frac{64\text{ pints}}{1}\cdot\frac{16\text{ ounces}}{1\text{ pint}}=1024\text{ ounces} \\ \end{gathered}`

This means that the bushel is equivalent to 1024 ounces.

Since there are 16 jars in 1 crate, we have the following:

`\begin{gathered} \\ 16\text{ jars}\cdot20\text{ ounces}=320\text{ ounces} \end{gathered}`

Divide the number of ounces in 5 bushels by the number of ounces in a crate.

`\frac{5(1024\text{ ounces)}}{320\text{ ounces}}=\frac{5120\text{ ounces}}{320\text{ ounces}}=16`

Therefore, the farmer must have 16 crates.