Question

Dina picked 1/2 of a pound of berries. She divided them evenly among 5 containers. How many pounds of berries did Dina put in each container?

Answer 1

$1 \div 2 = 0.5 \times 5 = 2.5$

Answer 2

For this case we must find the number of berries in each of the 5 containers, taking into account that Dina picked half a pound of berries. For this, we made the following division:

Let the variable "x" be the number of pounds of berries that each container contains.

$x = \frac {\frac {1} {2}} {5}\\x = \frac {1} {10}$

Thus, each container has $\frac {1} {10} \ pounds$ of berries

Answer:

Each container has $\frac {1} {10} \ pounds$ of berries