U would solve this by subbing in ur answer choices to see which ones make the equation true.
ur answer is : (-1,-8) , (0,-3), (3,12)
Step-by-step explanation:
I assume you meant :
the restaurant has 20 1/2 pounds of bananas.
one smoothie uses 1/8 pound of bananas.
how many smoothies can be made with the amount of available bananas ?
the answer is as many as the times 1/8 fit into 20 1/2.
so, we actually calculate
(20 1/2) / (1/8)
first we will convert the mixed number into a true fraction :
20 1/2 = 40/2 + 1/2 = 41/2
so we have
41/2 / 1/8
and then, when dividing fractions we have 2 choices (they do both the same, of course, but start looking differently) :
a/b / c/d = a×d / b×c
a/b / c/d = a/b × d/c = a×d / b×c
so,
41/2 / 1/8 = 41×8 / 2×1 = 41×4 = 164
they can make 164 smoothies.
(18 neclaces)/(12 days) = 1.5 necklaces/day
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Rate is generally expressed in terms of quantity per time period. ("Per" means "divided by" here.) So, to find the rate, you divide the quantity by the corresponding time period, as above. There are other sorts of rates, but this is perhaps the most common.
14400 quarts because there are 4 quarts in a gallon which means you would multiply 3600 by 4 to get 14,400
