your are making apple pie for a school fund raiser you have 4 baskets of apples and each basket contains 11 apples each pie requires 3 1/5 apples 1 apple fills about one cup how many cups of apples do you have and how many pies can you make
Do you mean that each pie requires 3 1/5 apples?
yes
To determine the number of cups of apples you have, you need to find the total number of apples first, and then convert that to cups.
You have 4 baskets of apples, and each basket contains 11 apples. So, the total number of apples can be calculated by multiplying the number of baskets (4) by the number of apples in each basket (11), which equals 44 apples (4 x 11 = 44).
Next, you need to find out how many cups of apples those 44 apples make. Since 1 apple fills about 1 cup, you can conclude that 44 apples will also fill 44 cups (as 1 apple = 1 cup).
Therefore, you have 44 cups of apples.
Now, let's calculate how many pies you can make with these apples.
Each pie requires 3 1/5 apples. To convert the mixed fraction 3 1/5 to an improper fraction, multiply the whole number (3) by the denominator (5), and add the numerator (1), resulting in 16/5 (3 x 5 = 15 + 1 = 16). So, one pie requires 16/5 apples.
To find out how many pies you can make, divide the total number of apples (44) by the number of apples needed for one pie (16/5).
44 รท (16/5) = 44 * (5/16)
Multiplying a fraction by its reciprocal is equivalent to dividing the numerator by the denominator of the reciprocal.
44 * (5/16) = (44 * 5) / 16 = 220/16 = 13.75
Therefore, you can make approximately 13.75 pies.
However, since you cannot make a fraction of a pie, you can only make 13 whole pies.