Question

An ocicat eats 3/5 of a pound of food daily. How many ocicats can a 19 1/2-pound bag of food feed for one week?

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Answer 1

13 Ocicats

Explanation:

Here, we are told that an Ocicat eats 3/5 pounds of food per day.

Now, we have a bag of 19 1/2 pound of food and we want to know the number of Ocicats this will feed

What we just need to do is to divide the weight of the bag by the amount in pounds that can feed a single Ocicat

Thus, we have;

19 1/2 divided by 3/5

= 39/5 divided by 3/5

= 39/5 * 5/3

= 13 Ocicats

Answer 2

A 19 1/2 lb of food will feed 4 ocicats for a week and will have 9/14 lb left.

Explanation:

The bag contains 19 1/2 lb of food.

One ocicat eats 3/5 lb in 1 day.

To find how many days you can feed 1 ocicat with 19 1/2 lb of food, we divide 19 1/2 lb by 3/5 lb.

19 1/2 ÷ 3/5 = 39/2 × 5/3 = 65/2 = 32.5

The food in 1 bag is enough to feed an ocicat 32.5 days.

A week has 7 days.

32.5/7 = 65/2 × 1/7 = 65/14 = 4 9/14

A 19 1/2 lb of food will feed 4 ocicats for a week and will have 9/14 lb left.