Audrey bought 7 pounds of diced apples and shared them equally among 4 friends. How many pounds of apples did each person receive? Two of the friends put the portions they received together and then gave them to the food pantry. How many pounds of apples did they give to the food pantry? Audrey used 1 2/3 of the apples the two friends gave to the food pantry to make apple sauce and the remaining to make apple pies. How many pounds of apples did Audrey use to make apple pies?

Each person received 7/4 pounds. 2(7/4) were given to food pantry.

It would help if you proofread your questions before you posted them. You seem to be missing a unit designation for the apple sauce. 1 2/3 what?

To find the number of pounds of apples each person received, you need to divide the total pounds of apples Audrey bought by the number of friends she shared them with.

In this case, Audrey bought 7 pounds of diced apples and shared them among 4 friends. So, to find the number of pounds of apples each person received, you can divide 7 by 4:

7 pounds ÷ 4 friends = 1.75 pounds/person

Therefore, each person received 1.75 pounds of apples.

Next, we need to find out how many pounds of apples the two friends put together and gave to the food pantry. Since each person received 1.75 pounds of apples, the two friends combined would have given:

2 friends × 1.75 pounds/friend = 3.5 pounds

Hence, the two friends gave 3.5 pounds of apples to the food pantry.

Finally, we need to determine how many pounds of apples Audrey used to make apple pies. Audrey used 1 2/3 of the apples given by the two friends to make apple sauce. To find the weight of apples used for apple pies, we subtract the weight of apples used for apple sauce from the total apples given.

1 2/3 can be converted to an improper fraction as follows:

1 2/3 = (1 × 3 + 2) / 3 = 5 / 3

So, Audrey used 5/3 pounds of apples to make apple sauce.

To find the weight of apples used for apple pies, we subtract 5/3 pounds from the total apples given:

3.5 pounds − 5/3 pounds = (3.5 × 3 - 5) / 3 = (10.5 - 5) / 3 = 5.5 / 3

Therefore, Audrey used 5.5/3 pounds of apples to make apple pies.