You have a pitcher that holds 39.3 oz of lemonade. If each glass holds 8.8 oz, how many glasses can you completely fill?
divide 39.3 and 8.8
however, the question requires the glasses to completely be filled and so with these types of questions, you must round down to four glasses of lemonade.
This problem can be modeled by the equation
Because each glass must be "completely fill"ed, the partial glass (
To solve this problem, you want to divide your
In our case, the dividend would be
You would move both decimal points the same number of spaces, so if you had
Now that our divisor is a whole number, we can divide. Our new problem is
So, we would be able to fill up
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