He can make 3 batches of soup.
Starting with 10 pounds of tomatoes and taking out the number of pounds he sets aside for spaghetti sauce, 2.8, we have:
10-2.8 = 7.2 pounds left.
0.2 is read as "two tenths," so 7.2 = 7 2/10
We divide this remaining number of pounds by 2 2/5 for each batch of soup:
7 2/10 ÷ 2 2/5
Convert each to an improper fraction:
72/10 ÷ 12/5
Multiply by the reciprocal:
72/10 × 5/12 = 360/120 = 3
If you want to convert 0.57 into a fraction, you
can do it like this:
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<span>0.57 equals to 57/100 </span></span><span>(you can't do anything else because 57 and 100 don't
have common factors).
</span><span><span /><span>The result is 57/100.</span>
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We are given the following data
x y
1 4.5
2 6.75
3 10.125
4 15.1875
To get the multiplicative rate of change, we pick out two pairs of data so,
MROC = 6.75/4.5 / (2 - 1)
MROC = 1.5
The answer is 1.5
