Question

1. It is h before closing time at the grocery store. It takes about h for Jane to find 1 item on her shopping list. How many items can she find before the store closes? (a) Create a model or write an equation for the situation. (b) Find the solution. Explain what you did. (c) State the solution as a full sentence.

Answer 1

GIVEN

The time left before the store closes is 3/4 h while the time taken to find one item is 1/8 h.

QUESTION A

Let the number of items that can be gotten before the store closes be N.

The number of items can be calculated using the formula:

`N=\text{ number of hours left}/\text{ number of hours used to find one item}`

Therefore, the equation to get the number of items will be:

`N=(3)/(4)/(1)/(8)`

QUESTION B

The solution can be obtained by division.

Apply the fraction rule:

`(a)/(b)/ (c)/(d)=(a)/(b)* (d)/(c)`

Hence, the solution will be:

`\begin{gathered} (3)/(4)/(1)/(8)=(3)/(4)*(8)/(1) \\ \Rightarrow(3*\:2)/(1*\:1)=6 \end{gathered}`

The answer is 6.

QUESTION C

Jane can find 6 items before the store closes.