She has 5.5 pounds and wants to split it into 50 bags.
<span>This is a division problem. She wants to divide 5.5 pound into 50 bag: </span>
<span>5.5 / 50 = 1.1 / 10</span>
<span>As far as "place-value reasoning" goes, she could realize that dividing by 10 is the same thing as moving the decimal place to the left, so: </span>
<span>1.1 / 10 </span> <span>= 0.11 pounds on each bag