Question

Jim’s picks 16 quarts of berries.He needs 21/4 quarts to make a batch of Jam. If he saves 21/2 quarts of berries to ea, how many batches of jam can Jim make

Answer 1

Jim can make approximately 7 batches of jam with the 16 quarts of berries he picked.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find out how many batches of jam Jim can make, we need to divide the total number of quarts of berries he picked by the number of quarts needed to make one batch of jam.

Jim picked 16 quarts of berries, and he needs 21/4 quarts to make one batch of jam. To divide 16 by 21/4, we can convert the mixed number 21/4 to an improper fraction by multiplying the whole number 2 by the denominator 4 and adding it to the numerator 1, resulting in 9/4.

Now we can divide 16 by 9/4. To divide by a fraction, we can multiply by the reciprocal of the fraction. So we have: 16 * (4/9) = (64/9). Jim can make approximately 7 batches of jam with the 16 quarts of berries he picked.