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It takes benjamin 28 minutes to mow 2 lawns assuming the lawns are the same size and benjamin works at the same speed about how long will it take to mow 5 lines

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If it is 5 lawns then an easy way you could do it is dividing 28 and 2, to get 14, then multiply 5 by 14. Or you could set up a proportion which would be 2/28=5/x and solve for x by cross multiplying. The answer you should get out of this is 70 minutes. Or and hour and 10 minutes.
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