Question

Payton has 4 bags of potting soil she has to put the same fraction in each of her 5 pots what fraction should she use

Answer 1

Payton should use $\frac{4}{5}$ of bags in each pot

Solution:

Given that, Payton has 4 bags of potting soil

She has to put the same fraction in each of her 5 pots

To find: Fraction that should be used by Payton

From given question,

Total number of bags = 4

Number of pots = 5

To find, fraction of bag she should put in 1 pot, we have to divide the total number of bags by number of pots

fraction of bag she should put in 1 pot = Total no. of bags $\div$ no. of pots

$\text{ fraction} = \frac{\text{ total number of bags }}{ \text{ number of pots }}$

$\text{ fraction } = \frac{4}{5}$

Thus payton should use $\frac{4}{5}$ of bags in each pot