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A hamster weighs 100 grams, and it eats 200 decigrams of food. How many decigrams does the hamster weigh after eating?

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1 gram is 10 decigrams so 200 divided by 10 is 20 and 100 plus 20 is 120 and 120 multiplied by 10 is 1,200 so it now weighs 1,200 decigrams
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