Oscar wants to buy 1 2/3 cups of almonds. There are 5/6 of a cup of almonds in each package. How many packages of almonds should Oscar buy?Write your answer as a fraction or as a whole or mixed number.

2

Step-by-step explanation:

What he needs is cups of almonds, so let's convert it into a mixed number by multiplying the denomiator by 1 and add it to the numerator, giving us .

So, what Oscar need is cups of almonds

However, the amount of almond per package is  

To find out how many package he needs, we divide what he needs by the amount of almond per package like this:

When dividing by a fraction, always convert it into a multiplication by flipping the divisor to be

Then, the equation will become:

× = , which is also equals to 2 because 30 divided by 15 is 2.

Therefore, Oscar should by 2 packages of almonds.