Question

Mr. Lee buys 2 and 74 lb of rice and 3 and 34 lb ofchicken. He will put an equal amount of rice andchicken into 5 dishes he is making. How muchchicken will be in each dish?

Answer 1

From the question

Mr Lee buys 2 and 1/4 lb of rice and 3 and 3/4 of chicken

He will put an equal amount of rice and chicken to make 5 dishes

This implies

For chicken, 3 and 3/4 of chicken will be used to form 5 dishes

This gives

`\begin{gathered} 3(3)/(4)lb/5 \\ =(15)/(4)lb*(1)/(5) \\ =(3)/(4)lb \end{gathered}`

Therefore, 3/4 lb of chicken will be used for each dish