The container of orange juice held 5 and one-third cups of juice. If a serving of orange juice is Start Fraction 7 Over 8 End Fraction of a cup of orange juice, to the nearest whole serving, how many servings were in the container?

Number of servings:

Step-by-step explanation:

In this problem, we have a container of orange juice helding a total of

cups of juice.

We can re-write this mixed fraction as improper fraction, and we get:

We also know that a serving of orange juice is equal to

of cup of orange juice.

Here we want to find how many servings are in the container: to find that, we have to divide the total amount of orange juice in the container (C) by the amount of juice per serving (s), so we find: