Joey works in a candy store. He has a 15.73-pound bag of gummy fish candy that he needs to split among 11 jars. If he could split the gummy fish evenly, how many pounds would he put in each jar?

Question

pounds

Answer 1

To find out how many pounds of gummy fish candy Joey would put in each jar, you divide the total weight of the candy by the number of jars.

Given:

• Total weight of gummy fish candy = 15.73 pounds
• Number of jars = 11

The calculation is as follows:

\[ \text{Pounds per jar} = \frac{\text{Total weight}}{\text{Number of jars}} = \frac{15.73 \text{ pounds}}{11} \]

Now, performing the division:

\[ \frac{15.73}{11} \approx 1.43272727272727 \]

Rounding this to two decimal places, each jar would get approximately:

\[ \approx 1.43 \text{ pounds} \]

Thus, Joey would put approximately 1.43 pounds of gummy fish candy in each jar.