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2/3 of a pizza was left over. A group of friends divided the leftover pizza into pieces equal to 1/18 of the original pizza. After each friend took one piece, 1/6 of the leftover pizza remained. How many friends were in the group?

User Timomeinen
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so draw a circle representing the pizza,and make 18 pieces of slices.then shade them till you count 6 pizzas.tgen to know how much friends there are,just count the shaded slices.i got 10 hope it helped!:)✌
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1/18 devided by 2/3 =


1/18 times 3/2 = 1/12 times 1/6 = 1/72
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