Question

A restaurant buys mustard in 3/4 pound jars. If a 27 pound carton was bought, how many jars would be in the carton?

Answer 1

The restaurant buys 3/4 pound jars
If they bought 27 jars how many pounds do they have.

We are going to multiply 3/4 pounds by 27 cartoon to find the pounds in it.
So 3/4x 27 is 20.25 ponds

Answer 2

3/4 pound make one jar

in 27 pound carton, there will be 27 ÷ (3/4)

= 36 jars

Explanation: