Mrs larnell is making a snack packs for a a class picnic. she puts 1/4 pound of apples,1/8 pound of nut mix, and 1/16 pound of chocolate in each of the students packs. there are 24 students in the class. what is the total weight of the snack packs? is there more than one way to solve this problem?

Answer=10 1/2 pounds

One pack has 1/4+1/8+1/16 pounds of snacks

Lets starts off giving our fractions of 1/4, 1/8 and 1/16 a common denominator of 16.

1/4=4/16
1/8=2/16
1/16=1/16

So...

x=4/16+2/16+1/16
x=7/16

So... One pack has 7/16lbs of snacks in it

Multiply 7/16lbs by the total number of students(24)..

7/16*24=10 1/2 pounds

another way of solving this problem could be...

1/4*24=6
1/8*24=3
1/16*24=1.5

6+3+1.5=10.5 pounds

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