Question

Dad makes 11 1/7 cups of snack mix. He puts all the snack mix into plastic bags. He puts 3/7 cup of the snack mix in each bag. How many plastic bags does Dad need?

Answer 1

19 bags

Step-by-step explanation:

To solve this problem, we first need to convert 11 1/7 cups to a fraction with a denominator of 7. We can do this by finding a common multiple of 7 and 7 (the denominator of the fraction 1/7) and then multiplying the fractions by the necessary multiples to get them to have a denominator of 7:

11 1/7 cups = (11*7 + 1)/7 cups = 77/7 cups

Next, we need to divide the total amount of snack mix by the amount of snack mix in each bag to find the total number of bags needed:

(77/7 cups) / (3/7 cups/bag) = (77/3)/(7/7 cups/bag) = 11/1 = 11 bags

Finally, we need to round up to the nearest whole number, since we can't have a fraction of a bag. Therefore, Dad will need a total of 19 bags.