Ricardo picked 8 1/2 pints of strawberries and used 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.
28/10
2 4/5
2 8/10
28/5
To find how many pints of strawberries he used for the jam, we need to multiply the total amount of strawberries Ricardo picked (8 1/2 pints) by the fraction of strawberries he used for the jam.
The fraction representing the strawberries used for the jam is given as a denominator of 10, which means he used 10 parts out of 10 parts.
8 1/2 * 10/10 = 85/10
Simplifying the result, we divide the numerator (85) by the denominator (10):
85 รท 10 = 8 remainder 5
Therefore, the answer is:
8 5/10 or simplified to 8 1/2 pints of strawberries used for the jam.