Question

1. Sandy has 1.45 L of soft drink in a bottle. She pours the soft drink into glasses with capacity of 0.32 L each. At least how many glasses must she use in order to pour all soft drink out of the bottle?

2. A baker has 5.6 kg of flour. Later he buys 2.5 kg of flour. If he needs 0.48 kg of flour to make a dough, then how many doughs can he make with the flour? How much flour remains (in kg)?

Answer 1

Explanation:

1.

how many glasses of 0.32 liter can she fill ?

that means, how often does 0.32 fit into 1.45 ?

that is solved by division :

1.45 / 0.32 = 4.53125

so, she will need at least 5 glasses to completely empty the bottle. the 5th glass will be filled only partly, but that does not matter in that regard.

2.

he has 5.6 kg and adds 2.5 kg. that is 5.6 + 2.5 = 8.1 kg.

1 dough (that means 1 portion of dough as described by his recipe) uses 0.48 kg flour.

how many doughs can he make

so, again, how often does 0.48 fit into 8.1 ?

8.1 / 0.48 = 16.875

he can therefore make 16 full portions of dough. he does not have enough flour for a full 17th.

so, he uses

16×0.48 = 7.68 kg of flour for the 16 doughs.

and he has

8.1 - 7.68 = 0.42 kg of flour left.