a bag of candy holds exactly 1/4 pound of candy. How many of these bags can be filled from 9 pounds of candy?

Question

a bag of candy holds exactly 1/4 pound of candy. How many of these bags can be filled from 9 pounds of candy

Answer 1

If one bag holds 1/4 of a pound, then 4 bags hold one pound.

We have 9 pounds.

 

4 * 9 = 36

You will need 36 bags.

 

If you want to do the entire thing in mathematical terms, then you have:

9 / ¹/₄ = ____

When you divide by a fraction, you flip the numerator and denominator and multiply:

9 * 4 = 36 once again.

Answer 2

To answer this question we have to figure out how many 1/4 pounds there are in 9 pounds.

 

Let's take one pound of candy. From this, we can fill four bags, because each will hold 1/4 of a pound.

 

So we do that nine times, 4 bags + 4 bags + 4 bags + 4 bags + 4 bags + 4 bags + 4 bags + 4 bags + 4 bags,

 

another way to look at this would be to multiply 9 by 4, so the answer is 36 bags.