To convert lbs to hundredweight divide by 112. I've generated some hopefully helpful examples randomly below, as with most random sentences please excuse the repetitive and occasionally comic outcomes.
You have 690 lbs of salt but you need to know how many hundredweight that is. To get the answer divide by 112 which gives you 6.160714 hundredweight.
To convert 980 lbs into hundredweight divide by 112 giving 8.750000 hundredweight.
You've got 380 lbs of rice but someone only wants to buy that in units of hundredweight, to change the units divide by 112. Now you have 3.392857 hundredweight.
In 160 lbs of flour there are 1.428571 hundredweight, to achieve this take 160 and just divide by 112.