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A committee is planning to serve dinner at an awards banquet for athletes. They plan to buy these foods to serve for dinner: 34 pounds of meat 20 pounds of potato salad 18 pounds of green beans Each plate served will have 12 ounces of food. Complete the sentences. The greatest number of plates that can be served with the food they are planning to buy is . There will be 110 people at the banquet. To serve each person one plate of food, the committee will need exactly more pounds of food.

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34(16)+20(16)+18(16)=
544+320+288=1152
1152÷12=96
They can serve 96 people

110(12)=1320
1320-1152=168
168÷16= 10.5
They will need 10.5 more pounds of food

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