Ajewelry store has 9/10 of an ounce of gold. they need to split it into 1/6 ounce groups. how many groups can they make?

Set up an equation like this where x is the number of groups:

x =

Now just solve the equation by dividing by  (or multiplying by the reciprocal: 6).

x = 27/5 = 5 and 2/5ths

Since you can't have 5 and 2/5ths groups, the answer is just the biggest number of groups that could be made without resorting to a fraction.

So just 5 groups.

The answer would be c.hope this .