about how much will each bag weigh?

Question

A Vegetable gardener needs to pack 16 pounds  of beans into 20 bags. He wants all the bags to weigh about the same. Get be your answer in both unsimplified in simplest form 

Answer 1

Divide the number of pounds by the number of bags to get the number of pounds per bag.

 

(16 pounds)/(20 bags) = 16/20 pounds per bag = 4/5 pounds per bag = 0.8 pounds per bag