Chad buys peanuts in 2-pound bags. He repackages them into bags that hold 5/6 pound of peanuts. How many 2-pound bags of peanuts should Chad buy so that he can fill the 5/6-pound bags without having any peanuts left over?

Answer 1

6 small bags hold 5 pounds.

The nuts come in 2-lb bags, so we need to bag up 10 lbs not to have any left over.

So, how many 2-lb bags in 10 lbs?

Answer 2

52 pound bags

Answer 3

1 4/6

Answer 4

Please be advise textbooks some times have mistakes wording problems. This problem read to me to pack 5/6 of a pound, not 5/6 of a 2-pound bag, so the answer cannot be 3, 5 or 6 bags. It is 15 bags because he needs to repack bags with no peanuts left over.

1 pound = 6/6. Since he repacks into 5/6, there is 1/6 left for every pound.

Then for every 2-pound bag he has 2/6 leftover.

2-pound bag = 12/6 - 10/6 = 2/6

For every three 2-pound bags he repacks into 5/6, he has 1/6 left over.

In five 2-pound bags he gets 5/6 more, enough to make small bags with zero left over. Each two lines of 1/6 represents 2-pound bag.

1/6 1/6 1/6 1/6 1/6 1/6
1/6 1/6 1/6 1/6 1/6 1/6

1/6 1/6 1/6 1/6 1/6 1/6
1/6 1/6 1/6 1/6 1/6 1/6

1/6 1/6 1/6 1/6 1/6 1/6
1/6 1/6 1/6 1/6 1/6 1/6

If you make this 5 times, you'll see the result. 15 bags of 2-pound.

Answer 5

I looked at marycruz's answer and I cam up with 30 because if marycruz said ",15 bags of 2-pound ", then you have to multiply 15 x 2. And you get 30

Answer 6

(15×2=100)+30 100+30=130

Answer 7

3 bags

Answer 8

This is the correct answer.
5/6+5/6+5/6+5/6+5/6+5/6=30/6
= 5 Pound Bags.

Answer 9

The correct answer is three 2 lb bags. For every 2 lb bag he buys he repackages in bags that hold 5/6. A 2 lb bag equals 12/6, which he repackages into two 5/6 bags which equals 10/6. 12/6 - 10/6 = 2/6 left. So for every 2 lb bag he buys, 2/6 is leftover. 2/6 + 2/6 + 2/6 = 6/6, therefore he would need to buy three 2 lb bags.

Answer 10

10/2

Answer 11

I think all of yall wrong because it asking for how many bags should he buy thise numbers are to high he might not have that much money the answer 6 because we learned this question in class

Answer 12

15

Answer 13

Medline please explain your answer in detail in not getting it

Answer 14

so kids or teens, just get a book to write this in.

so first, divide the 15 with 5.

than u get 3

Answer 15

6 because 5/6 plus 1/6 equals 6/6 so 6 bags of peanuts

Answer 16

First you have to convert the fractions into decimal form plus you have two equations to figure out. First you convert 5/6 which is 8.33333 after you also have to convert 1/6 which is 1.66666 so 8.33333+1.66666=9.999999 and we all know that any number after the decimal gets rounded up which equals 10

Answer 17

And 10 ÷2 = 5 bags

Answer 18

I don't get it?

Answer 19

I think that's wrong Molly?

Answer 20

Don’t get it

Answer 21

2 / 5/6 = 2 * 6/5 = 12/5 = 2.4
So a 2-lb bag holds 2 complete 5/6 lb bags, or 5/3 lbs, leaving 1/3 lb left over
using 3 bags will then fill 7 small bags

Answer 22

or

number of bags needed --- n
amount of peanuts he bought 2n lbs

number of bags he needs to buy
= 2n/(5/6)
= 12n/5 <---- must be a whole number
the smallest number of n to make it so, is n = 5

number of bags needed = 5

Answer 23

You need to get a while so
5/6+5/6=10/6 not a whole
10/6+5/6=15/6= not a whole
15/6+5/6=20/6 not a whole
20/6+5/6=25/6 not a whole
2/5+5/6=30/60
There are 5 wholes in 30/6 so 5 bags
Hoped this helped

Answer 24

I'm so confused

Answer 25

2pound is 6/6 - 5/6= 1/6 left over he would need 5 bags so he would not have any left over . (5x5)=35/6

So if you divide 35/6= 5 bags 🤷🏻‍♀️

Answer 26

i think mariela is corect