A canton of orange juice holds 10 cups. A recipe for fruit smoothies requires #1 1/4# cups of orange juice. How many recipes could you make with the carton of orange juice?
1 Answer
Mar 5, 2018
8
Explanation:
To find the number of
Let's turn those into improper fractions so that they are easier to work with:
When dividing by a fraction, we can multiply by its reciprocal:
Let's do the cancellation between the 10 and the 5: