Question

Stephanie has a ball of dough that weighs 20.8 ounces. She divides the dough into 8 equal amounts to make rolls. To find the weight w of each piece of dough, Stephanie solves the equation 8w=20.8. What is the weight of each piece of dough?

Answer 1

Explanation:

Answer 2

2.6 ounces

Explanation:

In this question, we are made to understand that Stephanie has some amount of dough weighing a particular ounce.

She now decide to cut the dough into rolls. She did this by cutting the dough into 8 different rolls. We are now asked to calculate the weight of each roll.

This had been given as 8w = 20.8

Solving this mathematically: w = 20.8/8 = 2.6

This means each roll of the dough will weigh 2.6 ounces