Given that Mrs Jones has 4 dogs and she has 8 1/6 pounds of food.
Let x represent the amount of food each dog will eat.
Then it can be represented by the equation;
[tex]4x=8\frac{1}{6}[/tex]to solve for x, let us divide both sides by 4;
[tex]\begin{gathered} \frac{4x}{4}=\frac{8\frac{1}{6}}{4} \\ x=2\frac{1}{24} \end{gathered}[/tex]Therefore, the amount of food each dog will eat is;
[tex]2\frac{1}{24}\text{ pounds}[/tex]