Jon is making hamburgers for a church lunch. He has 42 2/3 lbs of ground beef. How many 1/3 pound hamburgers can he make using all the ground beef?

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Verified Answer :

He can make 128 burgers

Answer:

128 hamburgers.

Step-by-step explanation:

Jon is making hamburgers for a church lunch.

He is using \(\frac{1}{3}\) pound of beef in one hamburger.

He has the total amount of beef =  \(42\frac{2}{3}\) pounds

                                             = \(\frac{128}{3}\)

Since in one hamburger he use beef =  \(\frac{1}{3}\) pound

\(\frac{128}{3}\) pounds of ground beef is used in = \(\frac{\frac{128}{3} }{\frac{1}{3} }\)

= \(\frac{128}{3}\) × \(\frac{3}{1}\)

= \(\frac{384}{3}\)

= 128 hamburgers

Jon can make 128 hamburgers using all the ground beef.