Marcy had 9.98 pounds of sauce. she wants to put them into 2 equal bags. how many pounds of sauce will be in one bag?

If Marcy would want to have 2 bags with the equal amount of sauce from a 9.98 pound bag of sauce, then all she needs to do is to divide the total amount of sauce, which is 9.98, by 2 bags. So if she would do this, then the equation will be 9.98/2. The answer to this problem would be 4.99 pounds of sauce per bag. This makes since because 4.99 pounds (in the first bag) + 4.99 pounds (in the second bag) will make up 9.98 pounds which is the total amount of sauce Marcy has. 

i think there was a typo. you wrote pat brings 3 quarts of ice-cream to the party. each serving of ice-cream is 1 6 quart. how many total servings of ice-cream does pat bring to the party? i think the bold is supposed to be 1/6. so 1 quart of ice cream = 6 servings. 6 * 3 = 18.

the answer is 18.