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A restaurant used 3 pounds of potatoes during a lunch rush. If they used 3/8 as much beef, how many pounds of beef did they use?

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The restaurant used 3 pounds of potatoes, 3/8 of that would be 1.125. Thus, the restaurant used 1.125 pounds of beef during the lunch rush.
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