Gilbert's Great Gumball Company sells bags of gumballs in all kinds of crazy flavors. A bag of 10 gumballs weighs 1/2

Question

of a pound. How many pounds does each gumball weigh?
Write your answer as a fraction or a whole number.

Answer 1

To find the weight of each gumball, we can start by determining the total weight of one bag of gumballs and the number of gumballs in the bag.

A bag contains 10 gumballs and weighs \( \frac{1}{2} \) of a pound.

Now, we divide the total weight of the bag by the number of gumballs in the bag to find the weight of each gumball:

\[ \text{Weight of each gumball} = \frac{\text{Total weight of the bag}}{\text{Number of gumballs}} = \frac{\frac{1}{2} \text{ pound}}{10} \]

This can be calculated as follows:

\[ \text{Weight of each gumball} = \frac{1}{2} \div 10 = \frac{1}{2} \times \frac{1}{10} = \frac{1}{20} \]

Thus, the weight of each gumball is

\[ \frac{1}{20} \text{ pounds}. \]