Question

A fancy restaurant put dishes of butter at each table. They divided 4/5 of a kilogram of butter evenly to put 1/5 of a kilogram in each dish. How many butter dishes did they fill?

Answer 1

Answer: 4

This problem requires basic division. If the restaurant divided 4/5 kg of butter with 1/5 kg on each dish, you would need to compute 4/5 divided by 1/5.

4/5 ÷ 1/5

Using the "KFC" method, or Keep, Change, Flip, you would keep the first number (in this case, 4/5), change the division sign, and flip the fraction to 5/1, or 5. We now have this:

4/5 x 5

To compute this equation, you must multiply the numerators of both of the numbers together. In this case, you would compute (4x5)/5, resulting with 20/5, or 4.

You can check this answer by re-multiplying the numbers together. 1/5 kg of butter per dish, multiplied by the total amount of dishes, 4, you would result in the original 4/5 kg of butter.

Hope this helps!