Steve picks 55 pounds of pears. he packs an equal amount of pears into 6 bags. he then has 4 pounds of pears left. what is the weight of pears in each bag?

Because he has 4 pounds of apples left, you are to subtract that from the total pounds picked, which was a total of 55 pounds. So 55 with 4 taken away, or 55 - 4, equals 51. Since he had equally put 51 pounds into six bags, you are to then divide . 51 / 6 = 8.5. He had put 8.5 pounds worth of apples into each bag.