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A bag holds 5 pounds of pet food. If Paul uses the 5 pounds of food to fill 6 plastic containers equally, how much pet food will each container hold?

User Ggalmazor
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13.3 ounces for each bag
User Fortilan
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First, convert 5 pounds into ounces by multiplying 5 by 16 (number of ounces in a pound):
16 * 5 = 80 ounces
Next, you divide by the amount of sections (in your case, 6):
80 ÷ 6 = 20 ounces


There are 20 ounces in each of the six containers :)
Hope that helped!
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