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A group of students shared 3 rolls of clay equally. if each student got 1/2 of a roll of clay, how many students were in a group

A group of students shared 3 rolls of clay equally. if each student got 1/2 of a roll of clay, how many students were in a group
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a group of students shared 3 rolls of clay equally. if each student got 1/2 of a roll of clay, how many students were in a group

User Vicenteherrera
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there was 6 students 
User Damiaan Dufaux
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Hmm...
So since "how many students were in a group" signals a operation, in this case division.

The expression would be..
3 ÷ 1/2
So, the answer is 6.

Hope this helped...
User Emre Colak
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