Question

Play room is 9 pounds of apples she needs 1 1/4 pounds to make one apple pie if she set aside 1.5 pounds of apples to make applesauce how many pies, p, can she make?Write and solve an equation.

Answer 1

Hi there!

I'm unsure if '11/4 pounds' meant '1/4', however, if it did, the answer is 6 pies in total.

Here's how I worked it out:
9 - 1.5 = 7.5 ( 1 )
7.5 - 1.5 = 6 ( 2 )
6 - 1.5 = 4.5 ( 3 )
4.5 - 1.5 = 3 ( 4 )
3 - 1.5 = 1.5 ( 5 )
1.5 - 1.5 = 0 ( 6 )

Hope I helped! (: