Question

An ice cream shop has 2 large containers of ice cream. Each container contains 12 cups of ice cream. How many 34
cup servings of ice cream can be served from the 2 containers? Show/Explain your steps for solving this problem. write for a 3rd grader to understand

Answer 1

Let's solve this problem step by step!

1. **Find out how much ice cream we have in total.**
We have 2 containers of ice cream, and each container has 12 cups.
To find the total cups of ice cream, we can do a multiplication:
\[
2 \text{ containers} \times 12 \text{ cups per container} = 24 \text{ cups of ice cream}
\]
So, we have **24 cups of ice cream** in total.

2. **Understand the size of each serving.**
We know that each serving is **\(\frac{3}{4}\)** cup. To make it easier, let's also think of this as a fraction of a cup.

3. **Find out how many servings we can get from 24 cups.**
To find out how many \(\frac{3}{4}\) cup servings we can make from 24 cups, we can divide the total cups by the size of each serving:
\[
24 \text{ cups} \div \frac{3}{4} \text{ cup per serving}
\]

When we divide by a fraction, we can multiply by its reciprocal (this just means flipping the fraction).
So, \(\frac{3}{4}\) flipped is \(\frac{4}{3}\). Now we can multiply:
\[
24 \text{ cups} \times \frac{4}{3}
\]

4. **Calculate the multiplication.**
First, we can change 24 into a fraction:
\[
24 = \frac{24}{1}
\]
Now we multiply:
\[
\frac{24}{1} \times \frac{4}{3} = \frac{24 \times 4}{1 \times 3} = \frac{96}{3}
\]

5. **Divide to find out how many servings.**
Now we just need to divide 96 by 3:
\[
96 \div 3 = 32
\]

So, the ice cream shop can serve **32 servings** of \(\frac{3}{4}\) cups of ice cream from the 2 containers.

Great job! Now you know how to figure out how many servings of ice cream can be made!