Question

An adult alligator may weigh 350 pounds. A newly hatched alligator weighs only 1/9 pound. The adult weighs how many times the hatchling?

I got 350 but I'm not entirely sure if that's right.. or if I solved it right..
What I did is I took
350/1 {Divided by} 1/9
Then I flipped 1/9 making it 9/1
So then I did 350/1 x 9/1 and got 3150/9 and Simplified it to 350.

Answer 1

Just Divide..

350 / 1/9

We can multiply by the reciprocal of 1/9.

350 * 9 = ?

Answer 2

Your mistake was \(\dfrac{3150}{9}\). You didn't do it right.. you had to multiply the denominators together.

\(\dfrac{350}{1} \times \dfrac{9}{1} \rightarrow \dfrac{350 \times 9}{1 \times 1}\)

Answer 3

@kaela_stanley lol at your solution.

Answer 4

\(1 \times 1 \neq 9\)

Answer 5

Understand? @kaela_stanley

Answer 6

Ah, yes..lol I got it now. Simple mistake.. haha thanks! @iGreen

Answer 7

Yep, :P

\(\dfrac{350}{1} \times \dfrac{9}{1} \rightarrow \dfrac{350 \times 9}{1 \times 1} \rightarrow \dfrac{3150}{1} \rightarrow 3150\)

Answer 8

Welcome to Open Study!

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Answer 9

That's all.