Question

A witch made two bowls of potion. The first bowl contains 28.5 ounces of potion, and the second bowl contains 3 ounces of potion. She poured 3/4 ounces from the second bowl into the first one. How many times as much potion is in the first bowl as in the second bowl?

Answer 1

3/4 ounces as a decimal is 0.75, so we can subtract 0.75 from 3, and add 0.75 to 28.5 since the witch is pouring that much from the second bowl into the first bowl.

28.5 + 0.75 = 29.25
3 - 0.75 = 2.25

To figure out how many times bigger the first bowl is to the the second bowl, we can divide the first bowl by the second bowl. This will tell us how many times the second bowl will go into the first bowl.

$\frac{29.25}{2.25}=13$

So the first bowl has 13 times more potion than the second bowl.

Answer 2

2.25 because you subtract, and 3/4 is equal to
.75 like in money or in 3:4