Caroline wants to give 8 equal packets of sunflower seeds to her friends. she has 1/2 pound of sunflower seeds. how much will each packet of seeds weigh?

What she has to do is divide her amount of sunflower seeds into the number of packages that she needs: so 1/2 pounds into 8:



-if we divide a fraction, we can multiply the denominator by the number we want to divide it by.

This is the correct answer, each packet will weight 1/15 of a pound, that is one ounce