Question

Matthew used 1/5 of a box of flour for cooking and 3/4 of the remainder to make bread. The rest of the flower was packed equally into 5 containers. What fraction of the total amount of flour was in each container?

Answer 1

So, if the total amount of the flower was x

then he used $\frac{1}{5}x$ for cooking and $\frac{4}{5}x$ was left

then he used $\frac{4*3}{5*4}x$= $\frac{3}{5}x$ to make bread and $\frac{4}{5}x-\frac{3}{5}x$= $\frac{1}{5}x$ was left.


so the $\frac{1}{5}x$ was packed into 5 containers, each container had

$\frac{1}{5*5}x$, which is $\frac{1}{25}x$ of the total amount