Each candy bar in a bag weighs 50g and the entire bag weighs one kilogram.  How many candy bars are in the bag?

 

Subject
Level
Middle School
Grade
6

Answer

To resolve that we first need to know that :

1 kg is equal 1000 g.

So to figure out how many candy bar we have in the bag:

we divide 1000 by 50 :

1000 / 50 =

simplifying by 10 in both sides:

100 / 5 = 20 candies

 

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