Play room is 9 pounds of apples she needs 1 1/4 pounds to make one apple pie if she set aside 1.5 pounds of apples to make apple

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fenix001 [56]

3 years ago

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Play room is 9 pounds of apples she needs 1 1/4 pounds to make one apple pie if she set aside 1.5 pounds of apples to make apple

sauce how many pies, p, can she make?Write and solve an equation.

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kumpel [21] · Answer 1 · 2022-07-03T23:53:18+03:00

kumpel [21]3 years ago

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Hi there!

I'm unsure if '11/4 pounds' meant '1/4', however, if it did, the answer is 6 pies in total.

Here's how I worked it out:
9 - 1.5 = 7.5 ( 1 )
7.5 - 1.5 = 6 ( 2 )
6 - 1.5 = 4.5 ( 3 )
4.5 - 1.5 = 3 ( 4 )
3 - 1.5 = 1.5 ( 5 )
1.5 - 1.5 = 0 ( 6 )

<em>Hope I helped! (:</em>