Kaylee has 4 cups of sugar. She needs to divide the sugar equally into containers holding 1/3 of a cup of sugar. How many containers will Kaylee be able to fill?
Kaylee can fill 4 / (1/3) = <<4/(1/3)=12>>12 containers. Answer: \boxed{12}.
Apologies for the confusion. If Kaylee has 4 cups of sugar and each container can hold 1/3 of a cup of sugar, we need to divide 4 by 1/3.
To divide by a fraction, we flip the fraction and multiply. So, 4 divided by 1/3 is the same as 4 multiplied by 3/1.
Multiplying 4 by 3 gives us 12.
Therefore, Kaylee will be able to fill 12 containers with the 4 cups of sugar she has. Thank you for catching that mistake!
To find out how many containers Kaylee will be able to fill, we can divide the total amount of sugar by the amount of sugar each container can hold.
Since Kaylee has 4 cups of sugar and each container can hold 1/3 of a cup of sugar, we divide 4 by 1/3.
To divide by a fraction, we flip the fraction and multiply. So, 4 ÷ (1/3) is the same as 4 x (3/1).
Multiplying 4 by 3 gives us 12, and multiplying 1 by 1 gives us 1. So, 4 x (3/1) is equal to 12.
Therefore, Kaylee will be able to fill 12 containers with the 4 cups of sugar she has.
To find out how many containers Kaylee will be able to fill, we need to divide the total amount of sugar she has by the amount of sugar each container can hold.
Kaylee has 4 cups of sugar.
Each container can hold 1/3 of a cup of sugar.
To divide the sugar equally, we can use division. We divide the total amount of sugar by the amount of sugar each container can hold:
4 cups of sugar ÷ 1/3 cup of sugar per container.
When dividing by a fraction, we can multiply by the reciprocal (also known as the flipped version) of that fraction. The reciprocal of 1/3 is 3/1, which is just 3.
So, we have:
4 cups of sugar ÷ (1/3 cup of sugar per container) = 4 cups of sugar × 3 containers/1 cup of sugar.
Multiplying straight across:
4 × 3 = 12.
Therefore, Kaylee will be able to fill 12 containers with the sugar she has.