Question

Liza's cat had six kittens when Liza and her brother weighed all the kittens when together they weighed 4 pounds 2 ounces. Since all the kittens are about the same size about how many ounces does each kitten weigh

Answer 1

0.7 ounces each
its simple you divide 4.2 by 6 and get the answer of 0.7.

Answer 2

Each kitten weighs 11 ounces.

Further Explanation

Given:

• Liza's cat had 6 kitten
• Total weight of 6 kitten is 4 pounds 2 ounces

Question:

How many ounces does each kitten weigh?

It already mentioned that the six kitten weighed 4 pounds 2 ounces, but we can not simply divide the total weight with the number of kittens. Why? Because the total weight is in different unit, which is pound and ounces. First we need to convert the pound into ounce. Also the question is in ounce unit.

First step, we are going to convert the pound to ounce

We already know that:

$\boxed {1 pound = 16 ounces }$

so we can get the conversion factor as follow

$\boxed { \frac{1 pound}{16 ounces} } or \boxed {\frac{16 ounces}{1 pound} }$

we are going to choose the second one because then we can cancel out the pound unit:

$\boxed { = 4 pounds \times\frac{16 ounces}{1 pound} }\\\boxed {= 64 ounces }$

we've got that 4 pounds = 64 ounces

4 pounds 2 ounces = 64 ounces +2 ounces

                                 = 66 ounces

The next step would be divide the total weight(in ounces) with the number of kitten, which are 6 kittens

$\boxed {=\frac{66}{6} }\\ \boxed {= 11 ounces }$

so each kitten weighs 11 ounces.

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