Given:
Total amount of hamburger meat = 5½ pounds
Let's find how many ¼ pound hamburgers could be made from 5½ pounds of hamburger meat.
To find how many pound hamburger could be made divide 5½ by ¼.
Thus, we have:
[tex]5\frac{1}{2}\div\frac{1}{4}[/tex]To perform the division, take the following steps:
Step 1:
Convert the mixed fraction to improper fraction
[tex]\frac{11}{2}\div\frac{1}{4}[/tex]Step 2:
Flip the fraction on the right and change the division symbol to multiplication
[tex]\begin{gathered} \frac{11}{2}\ast\frac{4}{1} \\ \\ =\frac{11\ast4}{2\ast1} \\ \\ =\frac{44}{2} \\ \\ =22 \end{gathered}[/tex]Therefore, 22 of ¼ pound of hamburger could be made from 5½ pounds of hamburger meat.
ANSWER:
22
