IXL | Divide fractions: word problems

A fancy restaurant put dishes of butter at each table. They divided 1/2 of a kilogram of butter evenly to put 1/4 of a kilogram in each dish. How many butter dishes did they fill?

Simplify your answer and write it as a fraction or as a whole or mixed number.

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Tara feeds each of her dogs 1/8 of a can of food each day. She uses a total of 1/2 of a can of food each day. How many dogs does Tara have?

Simplify your answer and write it as a fraction or as a whole or mixed number.

dogs

key idea

Multiply by the reciprocal of the divisor.

solution

Divide the total amount of dog food by the amount Tara gives each dog.

Turn this from a division problem into a multiplication problem by multiplying by the reciprocal.

Cancel common factors, then multiply.

1 × 4

1 × 1

Simplify the answer.

Tara has 4 dogs.

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