To find out how much cheese goes into each bowl, you can divide the total amount of cheese by the number of bowls.
You have 6 1/2 cups of cheese. First, convert 6 1/2 into an improper fraction:
6 1/2 = 6 + 1/2 = 6/1 + 1/2 = 12/2 + 1/2 = 13/2 cups
Now, divide this by 4 bowls:
\[ \frac{13/2}{4} = \frac{13}{2} \times \frac{1}{4} = \frac{13}{8} \]
Now, convert \(\frac{13}{8}\) back to a mixed number:
\(\frac{13}{8}\) can be calculated as:
13 divided by 8 is 1 with a remainder of 5. So:
\(\frac{13}{8} = 1 \frac{5}{8}\)
Thus, each bowl will have 1 5/8 cups of cheese.