Question

Which story problems could be solved using the given equation? Choose exactly two answers that are correct. A. Mike spends a hour reading every night before bed. How many hours does Mike spend reading before bed in 6 days? B. Alice has 6 yards of ribbon. She uses yard of ribbon for each package she’s wrapping. How many packages can Alice wrap? C. A cup of milk is used for every serving in a recipe. How many servings can be made with 6 cups of milk? D. Charlie spent of his savings on 6 equally priced admission tickets to the zoo. What fraction of his savings did Charlie spend on each ticket?

Answer 1

B & C

This problem is made harder by you failing to actually give us the equation that you were given. But it's possible to look at the 4 options and see what 2 options are basically the same problem, which should be the solution to the actual problem which you failed to give us the equation to.


A. Mike spends a hour reading every night before bed. How many hours does Mike spend reading before bed in 6 days?
Answer to this is 6. 


B. Alice has 6 yards of ribbon. She uses yard of ribbon for each package she’s wrapping. How many packages can Alice wrap?
Answer to this is 6.

C. A cup of milk is used for every serving in a recipe. How many servings can be made with 6 cups of milk?
Answer to this is 6

D. Charlie spent of his savings on 6 equally priced admission tickets to the zoo. What fraction of his savings did Charlie spend on each ticket?
Answer to this is 1/6.

So we can eliminate option D as a valid choice. Leaving options A, B, and C. Looking closely you can think of option A as being "what's 1 times 6?". But both options B and C can be looked at like "if it takes 1 of a resource to do X and you have 6 of that resource, how many X can you do?" which is basically the same question. So B & C match. Therefore B & C is your answer.