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a baker is making banana bread with walnuts. the recipe uses 2/3 cup of a walnuts for each recipe. The baker has 19/2 cups of walnuts, What is the maximum number of full reciepe of banana bread the baker can make?

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14 beacause 2/3 is equal to 4/6 and 19/2 is equal to 57/6 and 14*4 is 56 so there would be 1/6 left but you need 4/6 to make bannana bread so the answer would be 14.
User Renaud Pradenc
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19/2 x 3/2
=57/4
=14 maximum
User Profet
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