Inactive Tutor answered • 11/02/15
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isn't 5 times 13 = 65
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An ocicat eats 3/5 of a pound of food daily. How many ocicats can a 19 1/2-pound bag of food feed for one week?
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Inactive Tutor answered • 08/19/15
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If the 19 1/2 pound bag was divided into 3/5 pound portions, how many portions would there be?
19 1/2 ÷ 3/5 make first number into improper fraction
39/2 ÷ 3/5 to divide by a fraction you can multiply by the inverse
39/2 · 5/3 reduce
13/2 · 5 multiply
65/2 reduce
32.5
There are 32.5 portions. For how many ocicats can this feed for a week?
32.5/7
4.64
You can feed 4 ocicats for a week and you shall have some feed left over.
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Thank you for the correction.
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11/02/15
Elli W.
Ever heard of 'The Art of Problem Solving' because i believe this is one of the challenge problems there...
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12/17/15
Harsh C.
https://artofproblemsolving.com/class/2083-prealgebra1/go/1123
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04/24/19
Justin Z.
Your answer is correct but the way you did it was wrong. The 19 1/2 pound bag could feed one ocicat for 32.5 weeks. Your right about that, but when you divided 32.5 by 7, your finding you many weeks the 19 1/2 bag could feed one ocicat. You should have done like this: First, calculate how many pounds one ocicat can eat in one week, which is 21/5. Next, divide 19 1/2 and 21/5. You should get an answer around four.
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