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Nan has 3/8 pound of blueberries. if she put equal portions of blueberries into 6 bags, how many pounds of blueberries are in each bag?

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In order to find how many pounds are in each bag, we just need to divide the total amount of blueberries by the number of bags.

So we have:


((3)/(8))/(6)=(3)/(8)\cdot(1)/(6)=(3)/(48)=(1)/(16)

So in each bag there are 1/16 pounds of blueberry.

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