Mrs. Barrett will be serving 40 people at Lydee’s birthday party. She plans to make three meatballs for each person. Mrs. Barret
t spent $39.00 at the store on the meat, which sells for $3.25 per pound. If Mrs. Barrett wants to make all the meatballs the same size, what will be the size, in pounds, of each meatball? Please be sure to show and explain all of your work to receive full credit.
Since she is planning on making 3 meatballs per person and there is gonna be 40 people, we would need to multiply, like this:
40x3=?
And you should get 120 as your total
Next if she spends $39 at the store and each pound of meat is $3.25 we would need to know how many pounds of meat she bought so we would need to divide like this:
39/3.25=?
Your answer should be, 12 pounds
So now we know how much meatballs she is gonna make total, and how many pounds of meat she has.
To find out the size of each meatball we of course would need to divide the pounds of meat by the number of meatballs she is going to make:
12/120=0.1
The answer should be, Mrs.Barrett should make each meatball, 0.1 pounds.
