{"id":24235,"date":"2025-06-18T11:43:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T11:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/?p=24235"},"modified":"2025-06-18T11:43:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T11:43:14","slug":"maggi-buys-3-4-pounds-of-blueberries-and-uses-3-5-to-make-a-smoothie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/maggi-buys-3-4-pounds-of-blueberries-and-uses-3-5-to-make-a-smoothie\/","title":{"rendered":"Maggi buys 3\/4 pounds of blueberries and uses 3\/5 to make a smoothie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Maggi buys 3\/4 pounds of blueberries and uses 3\/5 to make a smoothie. How many pounds of blueberries did Maggi use to make a smoothie?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><strong>The correct answer and explanation is:<\/strong><\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Correct Answer:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maggi used <strong>920\\frac{9}{20}<\/strong> pounds of blueberries to make a smoothie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Explanation (300 Words):<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>To solve this problem, we are told:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Maggi bought <strong>34\\frac{3}{4}<\/strong> pounds of blueberries.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>She used <strong>35\\frac{3}{5}<\/strong> of what she bought to make a smoothie.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The key here is to understand that we need to find a <strong>fraction of a fraction<\/strong>. Specifically, we need to multiply the two fractions together: 35\u00d734\\frac{3}{5} \\times \\frac{3}{4}<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When multiplying fractions, we multiply the numerators (top numbers) and then the denominators (bottom numbers): 3\u00d735\u00d74=920\\frac{3 \\times 3}{5 \\times 4} = \\frac{9}{20}<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, Maggi used <strong>920\\frac{9}{20}<\/strong> pounds of blueberries to make her smoothie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Why This Makes Sense:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s break it down with a real-world interpretation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Maggi starts with <strong>three-quarters of a pound<\/strong> of blueberries.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>She does <strong>not<\/strong> use all of them\u2014she uses <strong>three-fifths<\/strong> of that amount.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To find out how much she actually used, we find a portion (three-fifths) of the original portion (three-quarters).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a common operation in real-life situations where we calculate part of a part. For example, if you eat half of a pizza and then give away a third of what you ate, you\u2019ve given away one-third <em>of<\/em> one-half, which is one-sixth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Final Answer:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Maggi used <strong>920\\frac{9}{20}<\/strong> pounds of blueberries to make a smoothie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maggi buys 3\/4 pounds of blueberries and uses 3\/5 to make a smoothie. How many pounds of blueberries did Maggi use to make a smoothie? The correct answer and explanation is: Correct Answer: Maggi used 920\\frac{9}{20} pounds of blueberries to make a smoothie. Explanation (300 Words): To solve this problem, we are told: The key [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quiz-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24236,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24235\/revisions\/24236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}