Question

Preston has a 6 pound bag of sugar. He wants to put 1/5 of the bag into 5 containers so he can place one by each coffee maker in the school. How many pounds of sugar will be in each container?

1. 0.6 pounds
2. 1.2 pounds
3. 6 pounds
4. 30 pounds

Answer 1

To solve the problem, divide the total weight of sugar by the number of containers, which results in each container holding 1.2 pounds of sugar. The correct answer is (2) 1.2 pounds.

Step-by-step explanation:

The student is asking how to solve a problem that involves dividing a quantity into equal parts and unit conversion. Preston has a 6-pound bag of sugar and wishes to evenly distribute this into five containers. To find out how much sugar should go into each container, you need to divide the total amount of sugar by the number of containers.

First, we calculate one-fifth of the bag's weight, which is:

1. 6 pounds × (1/5) = 1.2 pounds

Now that we have the weight of one-fifth of the bag, we can say that each container will contain this amount of sugar, which is 1.2 pounds.

Therefore, the correct answer to the question, "How many pounds of sugar will be in each container?" is (2) 1.2 pounds.