Question

Ms. Carson is responsible for feeding the 200 campers at Sunny Acres Camp. Today for lunch, Ms. Carson is making sunflower butter and jelly sandwiches. Ms. Carson has three 2-pound jars of jelly. She uses 0.5 ounces of jelly on each sandwich. While making the sandwiches, Ms. Carson realizes she will run out of jelly before making all of the sandwiches. How many sandwiches short will Ms. Carson be?

Answer 1

To determine how many sandwiches short Ms. Carson will be, we need to calculate the total amount of jelly used and compare it to the amount available.

Ms. Carson has three 2-pound jars of jelly, which is a total of 3 x 2 = 6 pounds of jelly.

Since 1 pound is equal to 16 ounces, Ms. Carson has 6 x 16 = 96 ounces of jelly.

Ms. Carson uses 0.5 ounces of jelly on each sandwich.

If we let x represent the number of sandwiches, then the total amount of jelly used is 0.5x ounces.

To find out how many sandwiches Ms. Carson can make, we need to divide the available jelly by the amount used per sandwich:

96 ounces / 0.5 ounces per sandwich = 192 sandwiches.

Since Ms. Carson has 200 campers to feed, she will be short by 200 - 192 = 8 sandwiches.

Therefore, Ms. Carson will be 8 sandwiches short.