Question

Fabian harvests 10 pounds of tomatoes from his garden. He needs 225 pounds to make a batch of soup. If he sets aside 2.8 pounds of tomatoes to make spaghetti sauce, how many batches of soup can Fabian make? Drag numbers to write and solve an equation. Numbers may be used once, more than once, or not at all.

Answer 1

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