Question

Main Street Hardware sells paint thinner in gallons and fractions of gallons according to customer needs. On Saturday, the store sold the following quantities of pain thinner in fractions of gallons: 1/4, 1/2, 3/4, 5/8, and 3/10. Convert the fractions to decimals and then solve to find out how many total gallons were sold on Saturday.

Answer 1

First you need to convert the fractions into decimals. So for 1/4 you would divide 1 by 4 which gives you 0.25. You continue this process for the other fractions. 1/4=0.25 1/2=0.2 3/4=0.75 5/8=0.625 3/10=0.3  Then you would all all of the decimals together which gives you 2.425 , and that should be your answer