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Lauren is planting flowers. She has been working for an hour and has transplanted 14 flowers. She has 35 more to transplant. If she works at the same rate, how many more hours will it take her? Write and
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Lauren is planting flowers. She has been working for an hour and has transplanted 14 flowers. She has 35 more to transplant. If she works at the same rate, how many more hours will it take her?

Write and solve a proportion to model the scenario.

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14/1=35/x
14x=35
x=2.5

it will take 2.5 more hours to finish planting her flowers
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