Ellie has 12.5 pounds of potatoes to make mashed potatoes. She uses one-tenth as many pounds of butter as potatoes. How many pounds of butter does Ellie use?

Ellie has 125 pounds of potatoes to make mashed potatoes She uses onetenth as many pounds of butter as potatoes How many pounds of butter does Ellie use class=


Answer :

If there are 12.5 lbs of potatoes and 1/10 of that is the butter, divide 12.5 by 10 to get 1.25 lbs butter.
25/2 x 10/1= 1.25 sorry I fluctuated between fraction and decimal! Lol

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