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Hayden bought 48 new trading cards three-fourths of the new cards. How many baseball cards did Hayden buy?

User Metter
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Hayden bought 64 baseball cards
User Jussi Nurminen
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You need to divide 48 with 4 since 3/4 is being divided also. Once you do that, multiply by 3 to get the 3 parts of the whole fraction. Hope this helps. (P.s. I didn’t get the part when you said, “...? new trading cards THREE FOURTHS of the new cards.”)
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