Bobby makes trail mix for his hiking group. He mixes 1 and one eighth pounds of peanuts, 12 ounces of raisins, 11 ounces of walnuts, and 7 ounces of pretzels. If Bobby divides the trail mix equally among the 8 hikers in the group, how many ounces of trail mix does each hiker receive? Each hiker receives nothing ounces of trail mix.

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Gia Cobb

Mathematics

11 April, 22:25

Bobby makes trail mix for his hiking group. He mixes 1 and one eighth pounds of peanuts, 12 ounces of raisins, 11 ounces of walnuts, and 7 ounces of pretzels. If Bobby divides the trail mix equally among the 8 hikers in the group, how many ounces of trail mix does each hiker receive? Each hiker receives nothing ounces of trail mix.

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Devin Lamb · Answer 1

3.890625 or 3.89

Step-by-step explanation:

First, we add all of the ingredients and we have 31 1/8. Now, we divide this by 8 because there are 8 hikers. Our answer is 3.890625 (Of course we can always round).