Question

Penelope is making fruit salad. She purchased 5 & 1/3 ounces of the 6 different fruit. How many ounces of fruit did she purchased? ( write the answer as a decimal)

Answer 1

ANSWER:

32 ounces

STEP-BY-STEP EXPLANATION:

To know the total number of fruits, we must multiply the quantity purchased of each fruit by the number of fruits purchased, like this:

$\begin{gathered} 5\frac{1}{3}=\frac{16}{3} \\ \text{ therefore:} \\ \frac{16}{3}\cdot6=32 \end{gathered}$

In total there are 32 ounces of fruits