Question

Elisa has 6 1/4 pounds of flour. She would like to divide the flour equally into 5 bags. How much flour will be in each bag? 1 1/4 11 1/4 31 1/4

Answer 1

1 1/4

Explanation:

All this is, is division. You do 61/4 dived by 5. To divide fractions you flip the numerator and denominator of the second number and multiply them.

25/4 *1/5

Therefore the answer is 25/20 which is 1 and 5/20

That can be simplified to 1 and 1/4.