Dividing Fractions

Question 9 of 13 • SS-English Language Arts 7

Several batches of stew were made yesterday. Each batch required pounds of meat. All together, pounds of meat was used. Janice tried to find the number of batches of stew made. Her work is shown below.When she checked the answer by estimating, it did not make sense. What error did Janice make?

Answer

Janice converted a mixed number to the wrong improper fraction.

Janice added the numerators and denominators instead of multiplying.

Janice did not change the division problem to multiplication.

Janice did not convert the improper fraction to a mixed number correctly in the answer.

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