Joe's ice cream shop has 7/8 of a gallon of vanilla ice cream left. they use 1/12 of a gallon of ice cream to make one milkshake. how many vanilla milkshakes will they be able to make?

10 and a half vanilla milkshakes will they be able to make

Solution:

Given that  

Vanilla ice cream left at Joe's Ice Cream Shop = gallon

Vanilla ice cream requires making one milk shake = gallon

Need to determine how many more vanilla milkshakes can be made.

Number of ice cream which can be made in gallon = 1

So number of icecream which can be made in  

So number of icecream which can be made in is given as:

Hence approximately 10 and a half milkshake can be prepared

a negative exponent is translated as follows:

so, we have