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Kasey has 8 packages of gelatin. She plans to fill molds that each take 1 1/3 packages of gelatin. Each mold can be divided into 6 servings. How many servings of gelatin can Kasey make?

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if in total Kasey has 8 packaged of gelatin and it takes 1 1/3 for each mold which equals 6 servings than you could work it out as

8 divided by 1 1/3=6.015 since its not a whole number than you'd want to go down to just 6 resulting in Kasey creating 6 molds

6 molds times 6 servings= 36 servings

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