Question

Green Grass Landscaping spread 5 1/4 pounds of grass seed evenly over 2 lawns. If each lawn was the same size, how many pounds of grass seed did each lawn get?

Answer 1

`\text{Each lawn will get 2}(5)/(8)\text{ pounds of grass s}eed`

Here, we want to get the number of pounds of grass seed gotten by each lawn

Mathematically, what we have to do here is to divide the total pounds into two

That will be as follows;

`\begin{gathered} 5\frac{1}{4\text{ }}\text{ divided by 2} \\ \\ (21)/(4)\text{ }*\text{ }(1)/(2)\text{ = }(21)/(8)\text{ = 2}(5)/(8) \end{gathered}`