IXL | Multi-step word problems with fractions and mixed numbers

Terrence makes trail mix to bring to school as a snack. To make the trail mix, he mixes

pounds of nuts with

of a pound of dried fruit. Then he splits the trail mix into bags. Each bag can hold

of a pound of trail mix. How many bags can Terrence fill?

bags

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Honey Brook Farms covers

acres. The farmers use

acres of that land to grow wheat. The rest is split up into vegetable plots that each cover

of an acre. How many vegetable plots are there?

vegetable plots

To find how many vegetable plots there are, you can follow these steps.

Step 1: Find how many acres are used for vegetable plots.

Honey Brook Farms covers

acres. The farmers use

acres of that land to grow wheat. They use the rest of the land for vegetable plots. Subtract to find how many acres are used for vegetable plots.

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So, 8 acres are used for vegetable plots.

Step 2: Find how many vegetable plots there are.

Each vegetable plot covers

of an acre. To find how many vegetable plots there are, divide the 8 acres that you found in step one by

So, there are 32 vegetable plots.

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