Question

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One slice of cheese pizza contains 290 carlories. A medium size or ange has one fifth that number of carlories . How much carlories are in a medium size orange?

Answer 1

1/5*290

Answer 2

how did you get this answer

Answer 3

ok so it says that an orange has 1/5 the number of calories as a slice of pizza.
A slice of pizza is 290 calories so we can set it up as the equation
1/5(290)= x

Answer 4

x= calories in an orange

Answer 5

so u have to solve for x?

Answer 6

do you get how i got that?

Answer 7

no can you help me

Answer 8

yepp, so you just do .2*290

Answer 9

because .2= 1/5 which we use because an orange only has 1/5 of the calories that a piece of pizza has

Answer 10

yes i understand that

Answer 11

ok so what is .2*290?

Answer 12

580

Answer 13

nope its not 290*2 its 290* .2

Answer 14

so move the decimal to the left once

Answer 15

58

Answer 16

correct

Answer 17

so is this the answer? 58?

Answer 18

yes

Answer 19

thank you :)

Answer 20

sure :)