Marion wants to make 7/8 cup of salad for each person at her party. how many salad does she need to make for herself and four freinds? use numbers from the box complete the equation that represents the problem

To answer that think of this as how many groups of 7/8 cups of salad are needed.

If Marion is with four friends, she need salad for five total people.

She will need five groups of 7/8 cups of salad.

This is represented as 5 x 7/8.

5 x 7/8 = 4 3/8 cups of salad

A= the square root of 3“if letters are anything like people, they’re all equal and deserve to be treated equally.”