Kendra has 5.5 pounds of popcorn and wants to package it equally in 50 bags.How can she use place-value reasoning to find the amount of popcorn to put in each bag?
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She has 5.5 pounds and wants to split it into 50 bags. This is a division problem. She wants to divide 5.5 pound into 50 bag:
5.5 / 50 = 1.1 / 10
As far as "place-value reasoning" goes, she could realize that dividing by 10 is the same thing as moving the decimal place to the left, so:
1.1 / 10
= 0.11 pounds on each bag
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