Question

Mindy bought 1¾ pounds of candy for herself and for each of three friends while she was at the candy store. How many pounds of candy did she buy?

Answer 1

Mindy bought 7 pounds of candy.

Explanation:

In order to solve this question we need to understand that based on the question itself there is 4 people (Mindy and the three friends) that each have
`1(3)/(4)` pound of candy. Now if you image in that way you see that in order to understand how much pounds of candy Mindy bought you will have to multiply
`1(3)/(4)` by 4 (because there is 4 people who got
`1(3)/(4)` pounds of candy each).

So now we can find the answer by doing the following.....

`(1(3)/(4) )(4) = ( (7)/(4))((4)/(1)) = ((7)(4))/((4)(1)) = (28)/(4) = 7`