Ricardo picked 31/2 pints of strawberries and used 4/5 of them to make jam how many pints of strawberries did he use for the jam write answer as a mixed number in simplest form
To find out how many pints of strawberries Ricardo used to make jam, we need to multiply the total amount of strawberries picked (31/2 pints) by the fraction used (4/5).
First, we can express 31/2 as a mixed number.
31/2 = 15 1/2
To find how many pints were used, we multiply 15 1/2 by 4/5.
15 1/2 * 4/5 = (15 * 2 + 1) / 2 * 4/5 = (30 + 1) / 2 * 4/5 = 31/2 * 4/5 = 124/10
To put the answer in simplest form, we can simplify the fraction 124/10.
The greatest common divisor of 124 and 10 is 2.
(124/2) / (10/2) = 62/5
Therefore, Ricardo used 62/5 pints of strawberries to make jam.