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Lola spends 1/3 of her allowance on movies she spends $8 per week at the movies wright and solve an equation to determine Lola's weekly allowance.

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8 divided by 1/3 is equivalent to 24. Therefore, her weekly allowance is $24.00. I hope this helped.
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$24 is her allowance. 1/3 of her allowance is $8. So you would multiply 8 times 3 because 8 is just 1/3 of her allowance and you want to find her total weekly allowance. 8 x 3 = 24
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