SOLUTION: Please help me solve this problem: How many leche flans can b made from 60 eggs if nine eggs are needed to make leche flans?

Algebra.Com
Question 856861: Please help me solve this problem:
How many leche flans can b made from 60 eggs if nine eggs are needed to make leche flans?

Answer by Fombitz(32388)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Set up a ratio.
9 is to 1 as 60 is to X.



You can only make whole flans.
So you can make 6 flans which use 54 eggs and have 6 eggs left over.

RELATED QUESTIONS

Hi there, I am stumped at how to do about this. Can someone please help me? Thank you! (answered by Edwin McCravy)
Please help me with this problem. How can you relate three variables with 2 different... (answered by stanbon,rajagopalan)
If nine hens can lay six eggs in two days, how many hens would be needed to lay 24 eggs... (answered by ptaylor,ankor@dixie-net.com)
three eggs are required to make two dozen miffins. how many eggs are needed to make 12... (answered by SoOoDumb)
Three eggs are required to make two dozen muffins how many eggs are needed to make 12... (answered by ikleyn)
If 60 trays are neede to pack 720 eggs in batches of 12, how many trays are needed if the (answered by Alan3354,ikleyn)
A packer sorts eggs by size. She finds 5 dozen large eggs in the first 24 dozen eggs she (answered by josmiceli)
If 5 hens can lay 24 eggs in 5 days how many days are needed for 8 hens to lay 20... (answered by stanbon)
Please help me solving this problem. A carton of 24 eggs contains one that is spoiled. (answered by Edwin McCravy,sudhanshu_kmr)