{"id":24237,"date":"2025-06-18T11:44:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T11:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/?p=24237"},"modified":"2025-06-18T11:44:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T11:44:33","slug":"maggi-buys-3-4-pound-of-blueberries-and-uses-3-5-of-them-to-make-a-smoothie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/maggi-buys-3-4-pound-of-blueberries-and-uses-3-5-of-them-to-make-a-smoothie\/","title":{"rendered":"Maggi buys 3\/4 pound of blueberries and uses 3\/5 of them to make a smoothie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Maggi buys 3\/4 pound of blueberries and uses 3\/5 of them to make a smoothie. How many pounds of blueberries did Maggi use to make her 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><br>To find how many pounds of blueberries Maggi used for the smoothie, multiply the total amount she bought by the fraction she used: 34\u00d735=920\\frac{3}{4} \\times \\frac{3}{5} = \\frac{9}{20}<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, <strong>Maggi used 9\/20 pounds of blueberries<\/strong> 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>300-Word Explanation:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This problem involves multiplying fractions to determine a part of a whole. Maggi starts with <strong>3\/4 of a pound<\/strong> of blueberries. However, she doesn\u2019t use all of them\u2014only <strong>3\/5<\/strong> of what she has. To figure out how many pounds she actually used, we calculate <strong>3\/5 of 3\/4<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The phrase <strong>&#8220;of&#8221;<\/strong> in math often means <strong>multiplication<\/strong>, especially when dealing with fractions. So, when the question says she used 3\/5 <em>of<\/em> the 3\/4 pounds, we multiply: 35\u00d734\\frac{3}{5} \\times \\frac{3}{4}<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To multiply fractions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Multiply the numerators (top numbers):<br>3\u00d73=93 \\times 3 = 9<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Multiply the denominators (bottom numbers):<br>5\u00d74=205 \\times 4 = 20<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>So, the result is: 920\\frac{9}{20}<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This tells us that Maggi used <strong>9\/20 of a pound<\/strong> of blueberries in her smoothie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To better understand this visually, imagine dividing 1 pound of blueberries into 20 equal parts. If Maggi used 9 of those parts, she used less than half a pound\u2014just under 0.5 pounds (since 10\/20 = 0.5).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This type of question helps build understanding of <strong>real-life applications<\/strong> of fractions, such as cooking or measuring ingredients. It also reinforces fraction multiplication and how to interpret word problems that involve &#8220;parts of parts.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, Maggi used <strong>9\/20 pounds of blueberries<\/strong> in making her smoothie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maggi buys 3\/4 pound of blueberries and uses 3\/5 of them to make a smoothie. How many pounds of blueberries did Maggi use to make her smoothie? The correct answer and explanation is: Correct Answer:To find how many pounds of blueberries Maggi used for the smoothie, multiply the total amount she bought by the fraction [&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-24237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quiz-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24237","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=24237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24239,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24237\/revisions\/24239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}