Question

Lillian wants to fill 3 punch bowls for a birthday party. Each punch bowl holds 4 1/10 quarts of
punch. How much punch will Lillian need?
Write your answer as a fraction or as a whole or mixed number.
quarts

Answer 1

Answer:

$12\frac{3}{10}$  quarts of punch

Step-by-step explanation:

To solve this problem, we multiply $4\frac{1}{10}$ by $3$. We have a few options. First, we could individually multiply both $4$ and $\frac{1}{10}$ by $3$ then add the products. This works because of the distributive property of multiplication. $(4*3)+(\frac{1}{10}*3) =4\frac{1}{10}*3$

We could also convert $4\frac{1}{10}$ into an improper fraction. This would make it into $\frac{41}{10}$. Then, we multiply $\frac{41}{10}*\frac{3}{1}$ and get our answer of $\frac{123}{10}$.

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