students in a cooking class made 4 1/2 quarts of soup.They served 4/5 of the soup to friends.Each serving is 3/5 quart.Hector incorrectly says that there were 3 3/5 serving of soup.What is the correct number of servings ? what did Hector do wrong ?
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so the students mad 4 and 1/2 quarts of soup.
they served 4/5 of that 4 and 1/2 to some friends....well, what's 4/5 of 4 and 1/2? well is just their product.
so, there were 6 servings, meaning there were 6 friends about.
now, whatever happened to Hector? well, 18/5 in mixed is 3 and 3/5, so he's correct, there were 3 and 3/5 "quarts in total" served to the friends, but each serving wasn't that much, was just a fraction of that.