Question

Sheila has 11

1
2
pounds of potato salad. She wants to divide the potato salad into containers, each of which holds 1
1
4
pounds. How many containers does she need? Complete the explanation.

Containers are counted in
mixed
numbers, so she will need containers.

Answer 1

She will need 10 containers

Explanation:

Using long division and converting both solutions to decimals we can use the equation 11.50 divided by 1.25. This will equal 9.20, we then know that she would need 9 containers but we would still have a remainder of .20 so in total to fit everything she would need 10.

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