Question

Amy has 3 pounds of ground turkey to make meatballs she uses 3/8 pound per meatballs to make six meatballs how many 1/8 pound meatballs can Amy With the remaining turkey

Answer 1

First, let's determine how much ground turkey Amy uses to make the six meatballs.

She uses \( \frac{3}{8} \) pound of ground turkey per meatball.

For six meatballs, the total amount of ground turkey used is:
\[
6 \times \frac{3}{8} = \frac{18}{8} = \frac{9}{4} \text{ pounds}
\]

Now, we need to find out how much ground turkey she has left after making the six meatballs. Amy started with 3 pounds of ground turkey.

The remaining amount of ground turkey is:
\[
3 - \frac{9}{4}
\]

To perform this subtraction, we can convert 3 pounds to a fraction with a denominator of 4:
\[
3 = \frac{12}{4}
\]

Now we can subtract:
\[
\frac{12}{4} - \frac{9}{4} = \frac{3}{4} \text{ pounds}
\]

Next, we want to determine how many 1/8 pound meatballs she can make with the remaining \( \frac{3}{4} \) pound of turkey.

To find this, we divide \( \frac{3}{4} \) pound by \( \frac{1}{8} \) pound:
\[
\frac{3}{4} \div \frac{1}{8} = \frac{3}{4} \times \frac{8}{1} = \frac{3 \times 8}{4 \times 1} = \frac{24}{4} = 6
\]

So, Amy can make **6** additional meatballs, each weighing \( \frac{1}{8} \) pound, with the remaining ground turkey.