A chef separated 6 4/5 quarts of soup into bowls that contained exactly 1/5 quart of soup each how many bowls of soup did the chef prepair
Mathematics · Middle School · Tue Nov 03 2020
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To solve for how many bowl of soup did the chef prepare, divide the amount of soup the chef made by how much soup did he put in each bowl. Since the chef prepared 6 4/5 quarts of soup and poured exactly 1/5 quart of soup each bowl, divide 6 4/5 quarts by 1/5 quart to find how many bowls the chef prepared.
> 6 4/5 / 1/5
Convert 6 4/5 into improper fraction; 6 4/5 = 6*5 + 4/5 = 30 + 4/5 = 34/5
> 34/5 / 1/5
Get the reciprocal value of 1/5 to divide.
> 34/5 * 5/1
> 34 *5 / 5*1
> 170/5
Simplify 170/5 using 5 as their common factor.
>170/5
> 34 * 5 / 1 * 5
Cancel 5
> 34/1 or 34.
The chef prepared a total of 34 bowls of soup.