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Clarence buys a 20 pounds bag of potatoes. The bag contains fewer than 20 potatoes. Each potato is the same size. What can be the wieght in pounds of 1 potato?.
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Clarence buys a 20 pounds bag of potatoes. The bag contains fewer than 20 potatoes. Each potato is the same size. What can be the wieght in pounds of 1 potato?.

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so lets say there are 17 potatoes then it would be 20 divided by 17 so thT would be 1- 2
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Let the weigh to of one potato be x
The number of potatoes is less than 20. Let the number be y.

xy = 20; y < 20
x = 20/y ; y < 20
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