Question

janeen used 16 pieces of fruit to make her salad if 1/4 of the fruits were peaches how many peaches did she use ? make drawing to show your work

Answer 1

The answer would be 4 peaches. You could do division by doing 16 ÷ 4

Answer 2

4

Explanation:

Given : janeen used 16 pieces of fruit to make her salad

To Find: if 1/4 of the fruits were peaches how many peaches did she use ?

Solution:

Janeen used fruits for making salads = 16

`(1)/(4)` of fruits were peaches .

So, no. of peaches =
`(1)/(4) * 16`

=
`4`

Hence the number of peaches are 4

Refer the attached figure.