A supermarket baker is making chocolate chip cookies. She has 6 pounds of chocolate chips. She needs 3/4 of a pound to make one tray of cookies. How many trays of chocolate chip cookies can she make?
To find out how many trays of chocolate chip cookies the supermarket baker can make, we need to divide the total amount of chocolate chips by the amount needed to make one tray of cookies.
1. Calculate the number of trays:
6 pounds / (3/4 pounds) = 6 / (3/4) = 6 * (4/3) = 8 trays
Therefore, the supermarket baker can make 8 trays of chocolate chip cookies.
To find out how many trays of chocolate chip cookies the supermarket baker can make, we can divide the total amount of chocolate chips by the amount needed for each tray.
In this case, she has 6 pounds of chocolate chips and needs 3/4 of a pound for one tray.
To divide fractions, we multiply the first fraction by the reciprocal of the second fraction.
First, let's convert 3/4 to a decimal.
To do this, divide the numerator (3) by the denominator (4):
3 ÷ 4 = 0.75
Now we can divide the total amount of chocolate chips by the amount needed for each tray:
6 pounds ÷ 0.75 pounds = 8 trays
Therefore, the supermarket baker can make 8 trays of chocolate chip cookies.