All flour from five bags with 3/8 lbs of flour in each was divided into equal parts to make 7 loaves of bread. How can you calculate the amount of flour used for each loaf?

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Natalia Maynard

Mathematics

3 January, 15:42

All flour from five bags with 3/8 lbs of flour in each was divided into equal parts to make 7 loaves of bread. How can you calculate the amount of flour used for each loaf?

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Xzavier Whitaker · Answer 1

First you need to multiply 3/8 by 5 to get the total amount of flour that there is. You should get 1.875 pounds.

Then you need to divide 1.875 by 7 to get the amount of flour per loaf of bread. You should get 0.26785714285 or 0.27 lbs of flour per loaf of bread.