If there are fifteen 1/4 cup servings of ice cream in a container, how many cups does the container hold?
15/4 = 3 3/4 cups
To find out how many cups the container holds, you need to multiply the number of servings by the size of each serving. In this case, there are fifteen 1/4 cup servings.
To calculate the total number of cups, you can use the following formula:
Number of cups = Number of servings × Size of each serving
In this case, the number of servings is 15, and the size of each serving is 1/4 cup. So, you can calculate:
Number of cups = 15 × (1/4)
To multiply fractions, you multiply the numerators together and the denominators together. In this case, the multiplication would look like this:
Number of cups = (15 × 1) / (4 × 1)
Simplifying the multiplication, you get:
Number of cups = 15 / 4
Therefore, the container holds 15/4 cups of ice cream. However, it is more common to represent this as a mixed number or a decimal. Let's convert it to a simplified mixed number:
Dividing 15 by 4, you get a quotient of 3 with a remainder of 3. So, the mixed number representation is:
Number of cups = 3 3/4 cups
Therefore, the container holds 3 3/4 cups of ice cream.