Karen bought 8.5 pounds of flour. She uses only 2.5 pounds of flour to make the bread.
So, the amount of flour left after baking the bread = (8.5 - 2.5) pounds
= 6 pounds
So 6 pounds of flour is left. She breaks this 6 pounds of flour into several bags and each bag contains 2/5 pound of flour.
Now to calculate the 2/5 th pound of flour in decimal, we get = 0.4 pounds
So each of the bags contain 0.4 pounds of flour. Now we have to calculate the number of bags in which the flour have been kept.
So,
Number of bags required = 6/0.4
= 15
So 15 small storage bags are required by Karen to keep the remaining flour.
You would just do 1÷5 so it would equal 20 or 20%.
To solve, we will need to plug in -5 for x in both instances.
|-5 + 2| / -5 + 2
|-3| / -3
Now, these absolute value bars may be a bit puzzling. What we have to do is take the absolute value of the number inside of the brackets. Meaning, that if the number is negative, we make it positive, and if the number is positive, then it stays positive.
3 / -3
-1
Hope this helps!! :)
