Cheddar Charley's sells cheese in wedges that weigh \( \frac{1}{4} \) of a pound. To make the wedges, a worker cuts up a wheel of cheese that weighs 3 pounds. How many wedges can he make w a single wheel of cheese? Write your answer as a fraction or a whole number. Submit

To find out how many wedges can be made from a 3-pound wheel of cheese, you divide the total weight of the cheese by the weight of one wedge. So, you would calculate \( \frac{3 \text{ pounds}}{\frac{1}{4} \text{ pound}} \). To divide by a fraction, you multiply by its reciprocal. Thus, it becomes: \( 3 \times 4 = 12 \). This means the worker can make 12 wedges from a single wheel of cheese.