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Pepper jackie has 12 picks 1 out of every 4 picks is orange the rest are green how many picks are orange

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3 picks will be orange. 12/4 = 3
User Hce
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Answer:

3

Explanation:

Pepper Jackie has 12 picks, 1 out of every 4 pick is orange and the rest are green.

So there could be three groups of 4 each and in each group there is 1 orange.

There are 3 groups of 4 each that makes 12 (
3 * 4=12)

Now, in each group there is 1 orange, so in three groups there will be


1+1+1=3 orange.

1 for each group.

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