Question

Every week at the Cougar Scouts meeting, Jamal is in charge of the craft activity. This week, he decides to make pinecone bird feeders. At the meeting, Jamal divides a bag of birdseed evenly among 12 Cougar Scouts, and each scout gets 1/2 of a cup of birdseed. Use an equation to find the amount of birdseed in the bag.

To write a fraction, use a slash (/) to separate the numerator and denominator.

Answer 1

Let x be the amount of birdseed in the bag, in cups.

Then, 1/2 cup of birdseed per scout means that each scout gets x/12.

And since each scout gets 1/2 cup of birdseed, we can set up an equation to represent this relationship:

x/12 = 1/2

To solve for x, we can cross multiply:

12 * (1/2) = x

And simplify:

6 = x

So the bag of birdseed contains 6 cups of birdseed.