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ten pounds of rice are distributed equally into six bags to give out at the food bank. how many pounds of rice are in each bag?

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You are looking for the pounds of rice in each bag, or pounds per bag. There are 10 pounds for 6 bags, so putting this in fraction form gives 10lbs/6bags = 5lbs/3bags = (5/3lbs)/1bag. So each bag contains 5/3 pounds of rice, or 1.667 pounds.

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about 1.67 pounds of rice per bag
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