Question

Hamburger Heaven is having a lunch special where customers buy one 1/2- pound cheeseburger and gets one free. If they set aside 50 2/3 pounds of meat, how many 1/2- pound cheeseburgers can they make?

Answer 1

 

We are given that in one cheese burger, the amount of meat that it contains is a half pound, so:

meat in a cheese burger = 0.5 pound /cheese burger                                      ---> 1

 

We are also given that the total pounds of meat available for making the cheese burger is:

total meat available = 50 2 / 3 pounds

if expressed in decimal form is also equivalent to:

total meat available = 152 / 3 pounds = 50.67 pounds                                      ---> 2

 

Therefore to get the amount of burgers that can be make, we divide 2 by 1 to get units in cheese burger:

number of cheese burger = 50.67 pounds / (0.5 pound /cheese burger)

number of cheese burger = 101.33

 

Therefore about 101 cheese burgers can be made.