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Sophia loves to cook with fresh herbs. So, she decides to plant 8 different herbs and keep the small pots on her kitchen windowsill. She starts with a 2-kilogram bag of soil and puts the same amount of soil in each pot. If she uses all of the soil, how many grams does she add to each pot?

grams

key idea

There are 1,000 grams in 1 kilogram.

solution

You need to find how many grams of soil Sophia adds to each pot. First, find how many grams she starts with.

There are 1,000 grams in a kilogram, so multiply 2 kilograms by 1,000.

1,000

2,000

Sophia starts with 2,000 grams of soil. She puts the same amount in 8 different pots. Divide to find how much soil she adds to each pot.

2,000

250

Sophia adds 250 grams of soil to each pot.

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