Wendy has 10 ½ pounds of potato salad. She wants to divide the potato salad into containers, each of which holds 1 ¼ pounds. How many containers does she need? Show your work and answer in a complete sentence.

9 containers

Step-by-step explanation:

Since Wendy wants to divide the 10 pounds of the potato salad into 1 pounds for each container, You just divide 10 by 1 using the following method:

Convert 10 into an improper fraction:

Convert 1 into an improper fraction:

Then finally divide by   :

÷

This is the same as times the reciprocal of :

× = = 8.4

Since we cannot have 8.4 containers, we round it up to 9 containers, because for 8 containers, there will still be some pounds of potato salad left.

42

step-by-step explanation:

step-by-step explanation:

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