Question

The shaded area in the decimal grid below represents the amount of money that Karla has. She plans on dividing the money evenly between her three younger brothers. Her brothers are planning to spend the money on pieces of candy that cost $0.10 each.

What will be the maximum number of pieces of candy that each brother can buy?


(The large square of the grid represents $1.00 and each small square represents $0.01.)

Answer 1

Answer: It's 1.44 one giant square is 1 0.01 for each small square there is 44 squares so 0.01 0.02 0.03 0.04 0.05 0.06 0.07 0.08 0.09 0.1 if you do that three more times its 0.4 plus the other 4 squares is 0.44 so 1.00 plus 0.44 is 1.44 Karla wants to split $1.44 evenly for her three younger brothers so we have to divide the money we have by 3 which is 0.48 the brothers plan to buy candy that cost 0.10 they can buy 4 pieces of candy each they will have 48 cents left over

Answer 2

4 pieces each

Explanation:

You want to know the number of $0.10 candies each brother can buy with his equal share of Karla's $1.44.

Diagram

Each column of the diagram represents $0.10, the cost of one piece of candy. Then 3 columns represent 3 pieces, or one for each brother.

We can divide the shaded area into four (4) groups of 3 columns, representing 4 pieces of candy that each brother can buy. The remaining $0.24 will be divided so that each brother will have $0.08 left over after buying 4 pieces of candy.