Question

Three pounds of soil will fill 8 flower pots. You can use that information to answer different questions. Drag each expression to show which question it answers.

Answer 1

Answer:

Left-Most Box:

$3\div 8\text{ and } \frac{1}{8}\text{ of } 3$

Middle Box:

$=\frac{1}{3}\text{ of } 8\text{ and } =\frac{1}{3}\times 8$

Right-Most Box:

$8+\frac{1}{3}\text{ and } 8\times 3$

Step-by-step explanation:

We know that 3 pounds of soil fills 8 flower pots.

Using this, we can find our answers to different questions.

Question 1:

We want to know how many pots of soil will fill 1 flower pot.

We know that 3 pounds of soil fills 8 pots. So, to find the amount of soil that fills 1 pot, we can divide 3 by 8:

$3\div 8$

This is the same as multiplying by a fraction. Namely, is it also 1/8 of 3:

$=\frac{1}{8}\text{ of } 3$

And these are all the choices for the first question.

Question 2:

We want to know how many pots we can fill with 1 pound of soil.

To find this, we can divide 8 pots by 3 to get the unit rate of pots to soil. So:

$8\div3$

This is the same as 1/3 of 8:

$=\frac{1}{3}\text{ of } 8$

Which is the same as 1/3 multiplied by 8:

$=\frac{1}{3}\times 8$

And these are all of the possible choices.

Question 3:

The two remaining ones,

$8+\frac{1}{3}\text{ and } 8\times 3$

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