Equations With Rational Coefficients

For art class, a teacher bought 20 pounds of paste. Each student is going to use 4/5 of the paste to make a pinata. How many students can make pinatas?Just put a number for your answer!

 At a local shelter, 36 people volunteered to help prepare meals for disastervictims. If this represented 9/16 of the volunteers at the shelter, write and solve anequation to determine how many volunteers helped at the local shelter. Just enter your answer, not the equation.

12.3 = 0.41x 

0.6h = 13.02

27.3 = 3/4yenter your answer as a decimal

11.3y = -4.52

1 =