Question

ricardo picked 3 1/2 pints of strawberries and used 4/5 of them to make jam how many pints of starberries did he used for the jam write awnser as mixed number in simplest form

Answer 1

[AI-generated answer — Bot GPT 3.5]

To find out how many pints of strawberries Ricardo used for the jam, we need to multiply the number of pints of strawberries he picked (3 1/2) by the fraction of strawberries used to make jam (4/5).

To multiply the whole number and the fraction, we first need to convert the whole number to an improper fraction:
3 1/2 = (2 * 3 + 1) / 2 = 7/2

So, the calculation becomes:
(7/2) * (4/5) = (7 * 4) / (2 * 5) = 28/10

To simplify this fraction, we divide both the numerator and denominator by the greatest common divisor, which is 2:
28/10 = (28/2) / (10/2) = 14/5

Therefore, Ricardo used 14/5 pints of strawberries for the jam, which can be simplified as the mixed number in simplest form: 2 4/5 pints.