Question

Jeremy is packaging a stew containers.There are 8 3/4 cups of stew that need to put into 5 to go containers equally.How many cups of stew will be in each container?

Answer 1

Each container = 1 3/4 cups

Explanation:

*** There are 8 3/4 cups of stew that MUST be put into five containers EQUALLY.

*** We are basically required to calculate the number of cups of stew that must be in each container.

Since 8 3/4 cups of stew needs to be equally distributed and placed in just about five containers, we will need to first convert 8 3/4 cups which is in mixed fraction into improper fraction in order to enable us to calculate successfully.

8 3/4 = [(4×8)+3]/4

= 35/4

We will now use a little bit of the principle of proportion to get through this:

If 8 3/4 cups must be equal in five containers, then one container will have ? number of cups:-

5 containers --------- 35/4 cups

1 container ---------- ? cups.

1/5 × 35/4

= 7/4 cups.

We will now convert it back to mixed fractions and we will have 1 3/4 cups.

Therefore, each container we will contain 1 3/4 cups

Answer 2

1 3/4 cups

Explanation:

In order to be able to equally divide the stew into 5 containers we need to turn everything into the same format, in this case it would be by multiplying the whole number and the denominator and then adding the numerator like so

(8 * 4) + 3 =
`(35)/(4)`

Now we can divide the numerator by 5 (container) in order to calculate how much stew each container will get.

`(35)/(4) / 5 = (7)/(4)`

So each container will get 7/4 of the Stew or 1 3/4 cups