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If you have 14 1/2 dozen boxes of envelopes, and you order 3 1/4 dozen more, how many dozen boxes will you have in all?

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The answere is 213 boxes

If you add 3 dozens to 14 dozens of boxes of envilopes , then you get 17 dozens of boxes of envilopes.Then of you sum up the 1/2 (2/4 ) with the 1/4.You get 3/4. Finally, you add 17 dozens to 3/4 of a dozen you get 17 3/4 dozens( wich is 213 boxes )

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