Kaitlin buys 9/10 of a pound of orange slices. She eats 1/3 of them and divides the rest equally into 3 bags. How much is in each bag.

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Emilia Wong

Mathematics

23 June, 10:13

Kaitlin buys 9/10 of a pound of orange slices. She eats 1/3 of them and divides the rest equally into 3 bags. How much is in each bag.

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Yaretzi Zuniga · Answer 1

I found how to solve this by pretending the / 10 wasn't there and divided 9/3 = 3. Next, I subtracted 9-3=6, and because she is splitting 6 into 3 bags she will have to divide 6/3 = 2. So in each bag there will be 2/10 pound of orange slices.