Question

Molly is planting seeds for a pink and white flower garden in her backyard. She is planting 1.5 times as many pink flowers as white flowers. If she plants 6 white flowers, how many pink flowers will she plant?

Answer 1

She will plant 9 pink flowers. You multiply 1.5 and 6 together

Answer 2

Answer:
9

Step-by-step explanation:
In word problems, “as many times as” can be translated into multiplication.

If Molly plants 1.5 times as my pink flowers as white flowers, we would multiply 1.5*(number of white flowers) to find out the number of pink flowers.

Because the question tells us there are 6 white flowers, we multiply 1.5*6, which equals 9.

I hope this helps!