Question

The food pantry distributes 10 oz bags of of rice if three 5-lb are donated to the pantry how many 10 ounce bags can be made?

Answer 1

16 ounces in a pound

16 × 5 = 80

5 pounds is equal to 80 oz

80 ÷ 10 = 8

Eight ten ounce bags of rice can be made out of five pound bag of rice.

There are three five pound bags. If one five pound bag makes eight ten ounce bags of rice. Then, three five pound bags make twenty-four ten ounce bags.

15 lbs. of rice makes 24 ten ounce bags of rice.