Question

Cathy made chocolate peanut butter fudge. She made enough chocolate fudge to fill 5 boxes. If she made 2/3 as much peanut butter fudge, how many boxes will the peanut butter fudge fill?

Answer 1

The peanut butter fudge will fill 4 boxes.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find out how many boxes the peanut butter fudge will fill, we need to calculate 2/3 of the number of boxes the chocolate fudge filled. Since Cathy made enough chocolate fudge to fill 5 boxes, we multiply 5 by 2/3.

Number of boxes the peanut butter fudge will fill = 5 x 2/3 = 10/3 boxes

However, we can't have a fraction of a box, so we need to round the answer to the nearest whole number. Since 10/3 is greater than 3, we round up to 4 boxes.

Answer 2

Answer: 3¹/₃ boxes

Step-by-step explanation:

She made enough fudge to fill up 5 boxes then made 2/3 as much peanut butter.

To find out the number of boxes the peanut butter would fill, simply find out what is 2/3 of 5 boxes:

= 2/3 * 5

= 3.33 boxes

= 3¹/₃ boxes