use 1/5 flour to cook and 3/4 to make bread the rest of flour packed into 5 containers what fraction of total

Question

Mary used 1/5 of a box of flour for cooking and 3/4 of the remainder to make bread. The rest of the flour was packed equally into 5 containers. what fraction of the total amount of flour was in each container?

Answer 1

A = amount of flour

 

A/5 was used for cooking and 4A/5 was left

 3/4 of the 4A/5 was used for bread = 3A/5

 

Thus A/5 + 3A/5 = 4A/5 was used, leaving A/5

 

The A/5 was divided into 5 parts i.e. 1/5 * A/5 = A/25