Question

Oscar wants to buy 1 2/3 cups of almonds. There are 5/6 of a cup of almonds in each package. How many packages of almonds should Oscar buy?Write your answer as a fraction or as a whole or mixed number.

Answer 1

Answer:

2

Step-by-step explanation:

What he needs is $1\frac{2}{3}$ cups of almonds, so let's convert it into a mixed number by multiplying the denomiator by 1 and add it to the numerator, giving us $\frac{5}{3}$.

So, what Oscar need is $\frac{5}{3}$ cups of almonds

However, the amount of almond per package is  $\frac{5}{6}$

To find out how many package he needs, we divide what he needs by the amount of almond per package like this:

$\frac{5}{3} \div \frac{5}{6}$

When dividing by a fraction, always convert it into a multiplication by flipping the divisor $\frac{5}{6}$ to be $\frac{6}{5}$

Then, the equation will become:

$\frac{5}{3}$ × $\frac{6}{5}$ = $\frac{30}{15}$ , which is also equals to 2 because 30 divided by 15 is 2.

Therefore, Oscar should by 2 packages of almonds.