Marco and his dad went strawberry picking. Together they collected strawberries that weighed 36 pounds. On the way back Marco ' dad lost 8 pounds of strawberries. Marco's strawberries now weighed 12 pounds. How much did his dad's strawberries weigh now?
irst, we need to find out how many strawberries there are in total. His dad started with 10 strawberries, and then he picked 5 more. So there are 15 strawberries in total. Now, we need to convert that number of strawberries into pounds. We know that 1 pound is equal to 16 ounces, and we also know that 1 ounce is equal to about 28 strawberries. So, 16 ounces = 28 strawberries. Then, we can set up a proportion to solve for the number of pounds of strawberries.

15 strawberries = x pounds

28 strawberries = 1 pound

We can cross multiply to solve for x.

15 * 1 = x * 28
15 = 28x
1/15 = x/28
x = 1/15 pounds

So, the answer is that there are 1/15 pounds of strawberries.