Question

at an ice cream social 3/4 of a gallon of ice cream is split into bowls each contaning 1/16of a gallon of ice cream how many bowls of ice cream can be made

Answer 1

In order to get how many bowls of ice cream can be made, we would have the division:

$\frac{3}{4}\div\frac{1}{16}$

To solve it, we cross-multiply:

$\frac{3}{4}\div\frac{1}{16}\rightarrow\frac{3\cdot16}{4\cdot1}\rightarrow\frac{48}{4}\rightarrow12$

Thereby, 12 bowls of ice cream can be made.