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

41 times as much because 3/4 of 3 is 2.25 and 30.75 divided by .75 is 41

Answer 2

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.

3/4 = 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

Now first bowl is 29.25 ounces

and second bowl is 2.25 ounces

Now to find how many times is first bowl to second bowl , we divide

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

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