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
The total number of pints of strawberries Ricardo picked is 3 1/2 pints, which can be written as 7/2 pints. To find out how many pints he used for the jam, we need to multiply the total amount of strawberries by the fraction representing the proportion used.
So, the amount of strawberries used for the jam is (7/2) x (4/5) = 28/10 = 2 4/10 pints. Simplifying this mixed number gives us the answer of 2 2/5 pints.
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To find out how many pints of strawberries Ricardo used for the jam, we need to multiply the total amount of strawberries by the fraction representing the proportion used: (7/2) x (4/5) = (7 x 4) / (2 x 5) = 28 / 10.
To simplify this fraction, we can divide both the numerator and denominator by their greatest common divisor, which is 2: (28 / 2) / (10 / 2) = 14 / 5.
Therefore, Ricardo used 14/5 pints of strawberries for the jam. This can be written as a mixed number in simplest form as 2 4/5 pints.