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) Responses 28/5 pints 28/10 pints 2 8/10 pints 2 4/5 pints
To find out how many pints of strawberries Ricardo used for the jam, you multiply the number of pints he picked (3 1/2) by the fraction he used (4/5).
To simplify this calculation, convert 3 1/2 to an improper fraction:
3 1/2 = (3*2 + 1)/2 = 7/2
Now multiply the two fractions:
(7/2) * (4/5) = (7*4)/(2*5) = 28/10
Therefore, the answer is 28/10 pints.