There are 36 chocolate chips in a 12 ounce bag. How many ounces does each chocolate chip weigh?

Question

For every 3 chocolate chips, it weighs 1 ounce

Answer 1

Can you see that     3 chips weigh 1 ounce, so if we divide each part of this statement by 3, we have the 

new statement       1 chip weights 1/3 ounce.