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Caroline wants to give 8 friends equal size packets of flower seeds to her friends. She has 1/2 pound of flower seeds. How much will each packet of seeds weigh?

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You just have to divide the 1/2 a pound by 8, or equivalently multiply by (1/8):

(1/2)*(1/8) = 1/16 of a pound
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