Jaylen has 5 cups of strawberries. He puts $\frac{1}{4}$ of a cup of strawberries in each dish of yogurt. How many dishes can Jaylen fill?

ArithmeticFractionsDivisionWord Problem
2025/5/9

1. Problem Description

Jaylen has 5 cups of strawberries. He puts 14\frac{1}{4} of a cup of strawberries in each dish of yogurt. How many dishes can Jaylen fill?

2. Solution Steps

To find the number of dishes Jaylen can fill, we need to divide the total amount of strawberries by the amount of strawberries in each dish.
So we need to divide 5 by 14\frac{1}{4}.
Dividing by a fraction is the same as multiplying by its reciprocal. The reciprocal of 14\frac{1}{4} is 41\frac{4}{1} or
4.
5÷14=5×45 \div \frac{1}{4} = 5 \times 4
5×4=205 \times 4 = 20

3. Final Answer

Jaylen can fill 20 dishes.

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