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Marco weighs 80 pounds. His bones make up 1/5 of his body weight. How much do his bones weight?

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his bones weigh 16 pounds. The way you solve this is by first making 1/5 a decimal 1/5=0.2. Then you just have to do 80*0.2=16  Hope this helps! 
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