Question

Marco weighs 80 pounds. His bones make up 1/5 of his body weight. How much do his bones weight?

Answer 1

80 /5 = 16

answer:

His bones weight 16 lbs

Answer 2

His bones weigh 16 pounds. The way you solve this is by first making 1/5 a decimal 1/5=0.2. Then you just have to do 80*0.2=16  Hope this helps!