Question

Mrs. jones has 4 dogs. she has 8 1/6 pounds of food left. if each dog eats an equal amount of the food, how much food will each dog eat? what is the equation.

Answer 1

Given that Mrs Jones has 4 dogs and she has 8 1/6 pounds of food.

Let x represent the amount of food each dog will eat.

Then it can be represented by the equation;

$4x=8\frac{1}{6}$

to solve for x, let us divide both sides by 4;

$\begin{gathered} \frac{4x}{4}=\frac{8\frac{1}{6}}{4} \\ x=2\frac{1}{24} \end{gathered}$

Therefore, the amount of food each dog will eat is;

$2\frac{1}{24}\text{ pounds}$