Question

Caroline wants to give 8 equal packets of sunflower seeds to her friends. She has 1/2 pound of sunflower seeds. How much will each packet of seeds weigh?

Answer 1

What she has to do is divide her amount of sunflower seeds into the number of packages that she needs: so 1/2 pounds into 8:

$\frac{1}{2}:8= \frac{1}{2*8}= \frac{1}{15}$

-if we divide a fraction, we can multiply the denominator by the number we want to divide it by.


This is the correct answer, each packet will weight 1/15 of a pound, that is one ounce