Question

A bag with 2 1/2 quarts of peanuts can make 2 1/6 jars of peanut butter. How many
quarts of peanuts would you need to make 3 jars?​

Answer 1

Answer:

You will need 3 6/13 quarts of peanuts to make 3 jars of peanuts butter

Step-by-step explanation:

To make this answering seamless, we make the mixed fractions into improper fractions

Hence 2 1/2 becomes 5/2

while 2 1/6 becomes 13/6

Here we are told that a bag with 5/2 quarts of peanuts can make 13/6 jars of peanuts butter

Hence, x quarts of peanuts will make 3 jars of peanuts butter

To get the value of x, what we simply need to do is to cross multiply.

Thus, we have

5/2 - 13/6

x - 3

3 * 5/2 = 13/6 * x

15/2 = 13x/6

26x = 90

x = 90/26

x = 45/13

x = 3 6/13