at a zoo, 3 pandas eat a total of 181 1/2 pounds of bamboo shoots each day. How many pounds of bamboo shoots do the female panda eat?

Question

What will the answer be? Do I divide or multiply? Please just give me the answers.

Answer 1

All you need to do is divide. If three pandas eat 181 1/2 pounds, then one panda would eat only one-third of that amount:

I'll start you off and let you finish the rest:

     6??

  ---------

3|181.5

  -18

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     0

 

Finish the rest of the division problem, and you'll have your final answer.