Question

Carlos has 5/8 pound of pumpkin seeds. He puts the seeds evenly into 10 envelopes. How much pumpkin seed is in each envelope?

a. 1/16 pound
b. 1/4 pound
c. 1/32 pound
d. 1/8 pound

Answer 1

To find out how much pumpkin seed is in each envelope, divide the total amount of pumpkin seeds by the number of envelopes. Carlos has 5/8 pound of pumpkin seeds and he wants to distribute them evenly into 10 envelopes. There is 1/2 pound of pumpkin seed in each envelope.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find out how much pumpkin seed is in each envelope, we need to divide the total amount of pumpkin seeds by the number of envelopes. Carlos has 5/8 pound of pumpkin seeds, and he wants to distribute them evenly into 10 envelopes. To divide 5/8 pound by 10, we can multiply the numerator (5) by the reciprocal of the denominator (10/1). This gives us (5/1) * (1/10) = 5/10 = 1/2 pound. Therefore, there is 1/2 pound of pumpkin seed in each envelope.