document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=295803>Question 295803</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> Hello <BR>\n" );
document.write( "Please help me solve this problem\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Kalli is making small bowls of nuts for a party. Each bowl uses 1/4 cup of nuts.  Kalli has 3 3/8 cups of nuts.  How many bowls of nuts can she make?<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "I tried dividing, multiplying and even subtrating 1/4 from the total untill I got 0 but I can not seem to get a reasonable answer.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "</I><HR><TABLE width=100%><TR><TD><B><A HREF=http://www.algebra.com/>Algebra.Com's</A> Answer #213241 by </B><A HREF=/tutors/aboutme.mpl?userid=richwmiller><B>richwmiller(17219)</B></A><img src=\"/images/stars/stars-13.gif\" alt=\"\" >&nbsp;<A HREF=/tutors/aboutme.mpl?userid=richwmiller><IMG SRC=http://www.algebra.com/images/aboutme-small.gif BORDER=0 alt=\"About Me\" VALIGN=MIDDLE></A>&nbsp;<IMG SRC=http://www.algebra.com/cgi-bin/show-face.mpl?user=richwmiller><BR>You can <A HREF=\"/cgi-bin/embed-solution.mpl?show=1&solution=213241\">put this solution on YOUR website!</A><BR><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> Let's use easier numbers to get the concept<BR>\n" );
document.write( "If I have 1 cups of nuts and I need 1/4 cup for my mix how many mixes can I make.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "I think you can see it is 4<BR>\n" );
document.write( "so what do you do to go from 1/4 and 1 to get 4<BR>\n" );
document.write( "there are two ways<BR>\n" );
document.write( "1/(1/4)=4<BR>\n" );
document.write( "but sneakily if I take the reciprocal of 1/4 which is 4 and multiply it by 1  also gets 4.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Multiplying by a numbers reciprocal is the same as dividing by the number.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "6 divided by 3 is the same as 6*1/3.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "It also works the other way<BR>\n" );
document.write( "6/(1/3)=6*3=18<BR>\n" );
document.write( "So 1/(1/4)=1*4<BR>\n" );
document.write( "now back to the original problem<BR>\n" );
document.write( "we want to divide 3 3/8 by 1/4<BR>\n" );
document.write( "so we can multiply by 4<BR>\n" );
document.write( "There are two ways to do this do. (In math there are always several ways to do anything).<BR>\n" );
document.write( "4*3=12<BR>\n" );
document.write( "]4 *3/8=12/8=1 /12<BR>\n" );
document.write( "12+1 1/2=13 1/2<BR>\n" );
document.write( "the other way is convert 3 3/8 to an improper fraction<BR>\n" );
document.write( "8*3=24<BR>\n" );
document.write( "24+3=27<BR>\n" );
document.write( "27/8<BR>\n" );
document.write( "27/8*4=27/2=13 1/2<BR>\n" );
document.write( "answer 13 1/2 or 13.5<BR>\n" );
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