Can any body please explain
A dejuicer was able to squeeze 1/5
of a pint of juice from a bag of oranges.
This amount of juice filled up 1/8
of a jug. At this rate, how many bags will it
take to fill the entire jug?
a whole jug is 8 times as much as 1/8 jug, right?
so 8 times as much juice ...
I notice that the # pints produced is irrelevant ...
To solve this problem, we need to determine the number of bags it would take to fill the entire jug based on the information given. Let's break it down step by step.
First, we know that the dejuicer was able to squeeze 1/5 of a pint of juice from a bag of oranges.
Then, we are told that this amount of juice filled up 1/8 of a jug.
To find out how many bags it would take to fill the entire jug, we need to find a common unit of measurement for both the amount of juice squeezed from a bag and the size of the jug.
Since both values are given in terms of parts of a whole, we can use a common denominator to compare them. The lowest common denominator for 5 and 8 is 40.
So, 1/5 of a pint can be expressed as 8/40, and 1/8 of a jug can be expressed as 5/40.
Since both fractions now have the same denominator, we can compare them directly.
We can see that 8/40 (the amount of juice from one bag of oranges) is larger than 5/40 (the amount needed to fill 1/8 of a jug).
Now, we can divide the total amount of juice required to fill the jug (40/40) by the amount of juice obtained from one bag (8/40) to find out how many bags it will take.
So, 40/40 divided by 8/40 equals 5.
Therefore, it will take 5 bags of oranges to fill the entire jug at this rate.