Question

at an ice cream social 3/4 of a gallon of ice cream is split into bowls each contaning 1/16of a gallon of ice cream how many bowls of ice cream can be made

Answer 1

In order to get how many bowls of ice cream can be made, we would have the division:

`(3)/(4)/(1)/(16)`

To solve it, we cross-multiply:

`(3)/(4)/(1)/(16)\rightarrow(3\cdot16)/(4\cdot1)\rightarrow(48)/(4)\rightarrow12`

Thereby, 12 bowls of ice cream can be made.