Question

Clarence buys a 20 pounds bag of potatoes. The bag contains fewer than 20 potatoes. Each potato is the same size. What can be the wieght in pounds of 1 potato?.

Answer 1

so lets say there are 17 potatoes then it would be 20 divided by 17 so thT would be 1- 2

Answer 2

Let the weigh to of one potato be x
The number of potatoes is less than 20. Let the number be y.

xy = 20; y < 20
x = 20/y ; y < 20