Question

A chef had 7 potatoes. How many bowels of mashed potatoes could he make if each bowel used one-seventh of a potato?

Answer 1

Since each bowel use one-seventh of a potato;

and the chef had 7 potatoes;

Then, he could make;

`\begin{gathered} 1bowel\rightarrow(1)/(7)potato \\ \text{xbowel}\rightarrow7potatoes \\ x=(7)/((1)/(7)) \\ x=7*7 \\ x=49\text{bowels} \end{gathered}`

Thus, the chef could make 49 bowels of mashed potatoes with his 7 potatoes.