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1. It is h before closing time at the grocery store. It takes about h for Jane to find 1 item on her shopping list. How many items can she find before the store closes? (a) Create a model or write an equation for the situation. (b) Find the solution. Explain what you did. (c) State the solution as a full sentence.

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GIVEN

The time left before the store closes is 3/4 h while the time taken to find one item is 1/8 h.

QUESTION A

Let the number of items that can be gotten before the store closes be N.

The number of items can be calculated using the formula:

[tex]N=\text{ number of hours left}\div\text{ number of hours used to find one item}[/tex]

Therefore, the equation to get the number of items will be:

[tex]N=\frac{3}{4}\div\frac{1}{8}[/tex]

QUESTION B

The solution can be obtained by division.

Apply the fraction rule:

[tex]\frac{a}{b}\div \frac{c}{d}=\frac{a}{b}\times \frac{d}{c}[/tex]

Hence, the solution will be:

[tex]\begin{gathered} \frac{3}{4}\div\frac{1}{8}=\frac{3}{4}\times\frac{8}{1} \\ \Rightarrow\frac{3\times\:2}{1\times\:1}=6 \end{gathered}[/tex]

The answer is 6.

QUESTION C

Jane can find 6 items before the store closes.

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