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Qasim has 6 1/3 cups of dough to make dumplings. if he uses 4/5 cup of dough for each dumpling, how many dumplings can Qasim make?

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Answer:

Qasim can make 23 and 3/4 dumplings with the given amount of dough.

Explanation:

To find out how many dumplings Qasim can make, we need to divide the total amount of dough he has by the amount of dough required per dumpling.

Qasim has 6 1/3 cups of dough, which can be represented as an improper fraction: 19/3 cups.

Each dumpling requires 4/5 cup of dough.

To find the number of dumplings, we divide the total dough by the amount of dough per dumpling:

(19/3) ÷ (4/5)

When dividing fractions, we can multiply the first fraction by the reciprocal of the second fraction:

(19/3) × (5/4)

To simplify, we cancel out common factors between the numerators and denominators:

(19/1) × (5/4) = 95/4

The resulting fraction, 95/4, represents the number of dumplings Qasim can make. However, let's express it as a mixed number:

95 ÷ 4 = 23 remainder 3

So, Qasim can make 23 and 3/4 dumplings with the given amount of dough.

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