Question

PLEASE HELP , ILL MEDAL

Lois made a dish with 4 1/3 cups of pasta. One serving of the pasta is 0.4 cups. How many servings of pasta were in the dish Lois made?

A. 10 5/6
B. 32
C. 3
D. 5 7/9

Answer 1

Hey ill help you @jayonna15 :D

Answer 2

Alright

Answer 3

ok so we know the total amount lois made.. and the amount 1 serving is. correct?

Answer 4

yup

Answer 5

so to do that we need to make the 1/3 a decimal. do you know how to do that?

Answer 6

is it 0.3 ?

Answer 7

Yes it is. well its a repeating 3 and way. its like this .333333333333 goes on forever. but anyway. so we now have 4.3 correct?

Answer 8

@jayonna does this make since? do you follow ?

Answer 9

yess

Answer 10

ok so now we can divide. whats 4.3 divided by .4?

Answer 11

1.075 ?

Answer 12

hold up.

Answer 13

When i do 4.3 divided by .4 im getting 10.75... and your getting 1.075?

Answer 14

yess

Answer 15

but can we speed up please , im on a time limit

Answer 16

ok well The answer is A do you understand? and if so can you fan and medal! :D

Answer 17

you know that becuase for this you can skip the reverting back. and its A. i did it for u :D hope it helped!

Answer 18

thank you :)