Math  /  Numbers & Operations

QuestionJake made sand art bottles to sell at his school's craft fair. He wanted to use 9 different colors of sand. So, he bought 1 pound of each color. Then, he filled as many 6-ounce bottles as he could. How many sand art bottles did Jake make?

Studdy Solution

STEP 1

What is this asking? How many 6-ounce bottles can Jake fill with 9 pounds of sand? Watch out! We're dealing with pounds *and* ounces, so we need to make sure those units match up before we do any calculations!

STEP 2

1. Convert pounds to ounces
2. Calculate the number of bottles

STEP 3

Alright, let's **start** by figuring out how many total ounces of sand Jake has.
We know he bought 1 pound of each of the 9 colors.
That means he has 99 pounds of sand in total!

STEP 4

There are **16 ounces** in every pound.
So, to convert pounds to ounces, we **multiply**!
We're doing this because each of the 99 pounds has 1616 ounces in it.

STEP 5

916=1449 \cdot 16 = 144

STEP 6

Awesome! Jake has a whopping **144 ounces** of sand to work with.

STEP 7

Each bottle needs 66 ounces of sand.
We have 144144 ounces of sand.
To find out how many bottles Jake can fill, we need to **divide** the total amount of sand by the amount of sand per bottle.
We're doing this because we're figuring out how many times 66 goes into 144144.

STEP 8

144÷6=24144 \div 6 = 24

STEP 9

So, Jake can make **24** sand art bottles.
Woohoo!

STEP 10

Jake made 24\textbf{24} sand art bottles.

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