Question

Farah harvests 20 pounds of tomatoes from her garden. She needs 4 4/5 pounds to make a batch of soup. Additionally, if she uses 5.6 pounds of tomatoes to make spaghetti sauce, how many batches of soup can Farah make?

Answer 1

Answer:

1 batch

Step-by-step explanation:

Farah needs 4 and 4/5 pounds of tomatoes & and additional 5 and 3/5 pounds of tomatoes to make soup.

4.8 + 5.6 = 10.5 pounds per soup

10.5*2 = 21 > 20 pounds

Farah would need one more pound of tomatoes in order to make 2 batches of soup. Therefore she can only make 1 batch.