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18 May, 10:48

You buy a family-size box of laundry detergent that contains 48 cups. If your washing machine calls for 1 and 1/5 cups per wash load, how many loads of wash can you do?

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  1. 18 May, 14:31
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    40 loads

    Step-by-step explanation:

    To find how many loads of wash you can do you need to divide 48 by 1 1/5.

    There are two ways you can divide this, the first way is converting 48 to a fraction and dividing them.

    48/1 divided by 1 1/5

    convert 1 1/5 to an improper fraction

    48/1 divided 6/5

    change the division to multiplication and find the reciprocal of the second fraction.

    48/1*5/6 = 240/6

    Simplify to 40/1 or 40

    The second way is changing 1 1/5 to a decimal, so its 1.2

    Then divide 48 by 1.2 and you get 40.
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