Jeffrey bought 3/4 pound of mixed candy to give to his friends. If he gives each friend a baggie with 1/8 pound of candy in it, how many baggies can he make?
To get your answer you need to divide 3/4 by 1/8. You will get 6/1 or 6 baggies. To check your answer you can do 6/1 times 1/8 and you will get 6/8 which can be simplified into 2/3.
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He would need three Baggies because if you divide 1/8 in half it becomes 0.5/4 and you need 0.5/4+0.5/4 to equal one, and you need three groups of those so... 0.5/4+0.5/4 0.5/4+0.5/4 0.5/4+0.5/4 and that would be three bags.