A cafeteria used 63.50 kilograms of beans to make 5 batches of chili. How many kilograms of beans were used in each batch of chili?

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5 batches of chili were made using 63.5 kg of beans total. You can assume the same amount of beans were used in each of the 5 batches, so ...

your equation would be:

63.5 : 5 = # of beans in each batch.

63.5 : 5 = 12.7

12.7 kg of beans were used in each of the 5 batches.

Check step:

12.7 * 5 = 63.5