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Rayna has 5 pounds of ground beef to make hamburgers for a picnic. Each hamburger uses 1/4 pound of ground beef how many hamburgers can rayna make?

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❖ Rayna can make 20 burgers.

Divide 5 by 1/4:

5 ÷ 1

--

4

When dividing, you flip the divisor and then multiply:

5 x 4 20

-- = --- = 20

1 1

Rayna is able to make 20 burgers.

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User BlueTrin
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Answer:

20 hamburgers

Explanation:

We have 5 pounds of ground beef

We are making 1/4 pound hamburgers

Take the number of pounds of beef and divide by the amount of beef per burger and we can determine the number of patties.

5 ÷1/4

Copy dot flip

5 * 4/1

20

We will have 20 patties

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