Question

Jacob’s recipe calls for 4 7/8 cups of raisins. He has 6/11 of the amount that he needs.
About how many cups of raisins does Jacob have?
Estimate by first rounding each number to the nearest 1/2.



A.4




B.5 1/2




C.2 1/2




D.3 1/2

Answer 1

What's 4 and 7/8 to the nearest 1/2?

Answer 2

Can you re-word that

Answer 3

Round 4 7/8 (aka 4.875) to the nearest 1/2 (aka 0.5)

Answer 4

4 7/8 is between 4 1/2 and 5. Which is it closer to?

Answer 5

5

Answer 6

right. And do the same thing for 6/11. That's between 1/2 and 1. Which is it closer to?

Answer 7

1?

Answer 8

It's 1/2.
6/11 is very close to 5/10, which is just another way of writing 1/2.

Answer 9

So the problem then becomes

Jacob’s recipe calls for 5 cups of raisins. He has 1/2 of the amount that he needs. About how many cups of raisins does Jacob have?

Answer 10

And multiply to get the answer

\[5\times \frac{ 1 }{2 }\]

Answer 11

thanks

Answer 12

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