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Yasmine is serving ice cream with the birthday cake at her party.She has perchased 19 1/2 pints of ice cream.She will serve 3/4 of a pint to each guest. How many guests can be served ice cream? Will there be any ice cream left?
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If you know your mathematics you should soon find out that 26 people can enjoy 3/4 pints of ice cream. There will be no ice cream left for anyone else.:-)

The number of guests that will be served ice cream is 26 guests and there will be no ice cream left.

The total number of ice cream purchased by Yasmine at her party is:

[tex]\mathbf{=19 \dfrac{1}{12} \ pints}[/tex]

If each guest gets served with 3/4 pints, then the number of guests that will receive the shared amount of pints is:

[tex]\mathbf{= \dfrac{3}{4} \ pints}[/tex]

The number of guests that can be served ice cream now is:

[tex]\mathbf{= \dfrac{19 \dfrac{1}{12} \ pints}{ \dfrac{3}{4} \ pints}}[/tex]

[tex]\mathbf{= \dfrac{ \dfrac{39}{2} \ pints}{ \dfrac{3}{4} \ pints}}[/tex]

[tex]\mathbf{= { \dfrac{39}{2} }\times { \dfrac{4}{3}}}[/tex]

[tex]\mathbf{= { \dfrac{13}{1} }\times { \dfrac{2}{1}}}[/tex]

= 26 guests

Therefore, we can conclude that the number of guests that will be served ice cream is 26 guests and there will be no ice cream left.

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