Question

A bag of jelly beans contains 4?5

of a pound. If each serving contains 1/10

of a pound, how many servings of jelly beans are available?
Responses

Answer 1

If the bag contains 4.5 pounds, then number of servings = 4.5 ÷ 0.1 = 45 servings.

(Equivalently, multiply by 10: 4.5 × 10 = 45.) If "4?5" meant a different fraction, tell me which and I’ll recompute.