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?(1 point)
Responses
1 ⅓ cups
12 cups
1/12 cup
¾ cup
To find the number of containers, divide the total amount of sugar (4 cups) by the amount of sugar in each container (1/3 cup):
4 cups / (1/3 cup) = 12 containers
Therefore, Kaylee will be able to fill 12 containers.
To find out how many containers Kaylee will be able to fill, we need to divide the total amount of sugar (4 cups) by the amount of sugar that can fit in each container (1/3 cup).
First, we convert 1/3 cup to its decimal form by dividing 1 by 3: 1 ÷ 3 = 0.33 cups.
Next, we divide the total amount of sugar (4 cups) by the amount of sugar that can fit in each container (0.33 cups): 4 cups ÷ 0.33 cups ≈ 12.12.
Since Kaylee cannot have a fraction of a container, she will be able to fill a total of 12 containers.
So the correct answer is 12 cups.
To find out how many containers Kaylee can fill, we need to divide the total amount of sugar she has (4 cups) by the amount of sugar each container can hold (1/3 cup).
So, we have:
4 cups ÷ 1/3 cup = (4 cups) × (3/1 cup) = 12 cups.
Therefore, Kaylee will be able to fill 12 containers with the sugar she has.