Question

A shipment of sugar fills 2 2/3 containers. if each container holds 2 1/7 tons of sugar, what is the amount of sugar in the tire shipment?

Answer 1

the shipment is 5 5/7 tons

Answer 2

So, you use multiplication in an arithmetic as this one, 
( 2 2/3) (2 1/7)
= 8/3 (2 1/7)
= 8/3 (15/7)
= 40/7
= 5 5/7

Answer is 5 5/7 tons of sugar in the entire shipment.(decimal: 5.714286) 





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