a bag of wax contains 160oz of content. it takes 8oz of wax to make one of wax to make one homemade candles. what fraction of the bag do you use to make one candle?

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Trixie

Mathematics

5 June, 07:17

a bag of wax contains 160oz of content. it takes 8oz of wax to make one of wax to make one homemade candles. what fraction of the bag do you use to make one candle?

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Chico · Answer 1

The answer is 1/20 simplified or 8/160 not simplified.

Step-by-step explanation:

All you do is put the amount of wax you use for one candle as the numerator and the total amount of wax in the bag as the denominator: 8/160.

Then simplify. 8 can go into 160 twenty times and once into 8. So the new, simplified fraction is 1/20.