Question

A 9-pound bag of sugar is being spilt into containers that hold 2/3 of a pound. How many containers of sugar will the 9-pound bag fill?

Answer 1

in essence, how many times does 2/3 go into 9? well, is just a division, so

`9/ \cfrac{2}{3}\implies \cfrac{9}{1}/ \cfrac{2}{3}\implies \cfrac{9}{1}\cdot \cfrac{3}{2}\implies \cfrac{27}{2}\implies 13(1)/(2)`