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Maria uses paper squares to create a rectangle. Joey cuts all of Maria’s squares in half to create triangles. He uses all the triangles to make a rectangle. There are 18 triangles in joey’s rectangle.
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Maria uses paper squares to create a rectangle. Joey cuts all of Maria’s squares in half to create triangles. He uses all the triangles to make a rectangle. There are 18 triangles in joey’s rectangle. How many squares where in Maria’s shape?

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I‘m sure that the answer should be nine.
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9 squares because if there are 18 triangles in it then you divide 18 by 2 and get 9
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