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Isabella's recipe for strawberry smoothies requires 2/3 cup of sliced strawberries per smoothie. How many smoothies can she make using 6 cups of strawberries?

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Answer:

9 smoothie's

Explanation:

Given Isabelle's recipe recquire 2/3 cup of strawberry for making one smoothie.

Given 6 cups of strawberry is available .

Let the number of smoothie's made by her is x


(2)/(3) cup ---->1 smoothie


6 cups ----> x smoothie's

on cross multiplication we get


(2x)/(3) =(6)/(1)

x = 9.

Therefore the total number of smoothies made are 9

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