A bag of trail weighs 11 1/2 ounces each serving of trail mix is 3/4 ounce how many servings are in the bag of trail mix? Show your work

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So, the bag weights 11\(\frac{1}{2}\), that is 11.5,, and also that is \(\frac{11*2+1}{2} = \frac{23}{2}\) correct?

I changed it into an improper fraction, because the division will be easier later.

A serving is \(\frac{3}{4}\). So what we need to do is the divide the weight of the bag, that is \(\frac{23}{2}\) by the weight of the serving, that is \(\frac{3}{4}\).

a division by fraction is a multiplication by its inverse, like this:

\(\frac{23}{2}\)\(\frac{4}{3}\)

now we can simplify: the denominator of the first and the nominator of second are multilications of 2:

\(\frac{23}{1}\)
\(\frac{2}{3}= \frac{46}{3} \frac{1}{3}\)


so there are 15 servings and a little will be left over.