Ricardo picked 3 1/2 pints of strawberries and used 4/5 of them to make jam. How many pints of strawberries did he use for the jam? Write the answer as a mixed number in simplest form.(1 point)
To solve the problem, we need to multiply the number of pints Ricardo picked by the fraction he used to make jam. So, we have:
3 1/2 * 4/5.
To multiply fractions, we multiply the numerators together to get the final numerator and multiply the denominators together to get the final denominator. So, the numerator is 3 * 4 = 12 and the denominator is 2 * 5 = 10.
Since both the numerator and denominator are divisible by 2, we divide both of them by 2 to simplify the fraction. We get:
12/2 = 6
10/2 = 5
Therefore, the simplified fraction is 6/5.
To convert the fraction into a mixed number, we divide the numerator (6) by the denominator (5). The quotient is 1 and the remainder is 1. So the mixed number is 1 1/5.
Therefore, Ricardo used 1 1/5 pints of strawberries for the jam.