Mary bought a 10-ounce bottle of cough syrup. If each dose is 1/4 ounce, how many doses are in the bottle?
4 doses /oz * 10 oz = 40 doses
10 peanuts/bag
7 bags/ box'
20 boxes/crate
10 crates/truck
how many peanuts/ truck?
(10 peanuts/bag)(7 bag/box) bag cancels so
70 peanuts/box
Get it?
now so
10 peanuts/bag * 7 bags/ box * 20 boxes/crate * 10 crates/truck
bag cancels and box cancels and crate cancels and we have
10*7*20*10 peanuts/truck :)
14,000 peanuts/truck?
kits, cats, sacks and wives -- how many were going to St. Ives?
Yes !! :)
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/StIvesProblem.html
But Osarhemen Igbinosun,
Best stick to the unit conversions and skip the St. Ives trip for the moment.
I happened to be covering this subject with Sea Scout navigators today:
Miles, nautical miles, degrees of arc, minutes of arc, minutes of great circle = nautical mile, knots, miles per minute, meters per second, time in hours, minutes, seconds ......
To find out how many doses are in the 10-ounce bottle of cough syrup, we need to divide the total volume of the bottle by the volume of each dose.
The volume of each dose is 1/4 ounce.
To calculate the number of doses, divide the total volume of the bottle (10 ounces) by the volume of each dose (1/4 ounce):
10 ounces / 1/4 ounce = 10 * 4 = 40 doses
Therefore, there are 40 doses in the 10-ounce bottle of cough syrup.