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Diego hosted a spaghetti dinner for the soccer team he made six boxes of spaghetti to be the 20 people that came next time 50 people are coming how many boxes of spaghetti should Diego by to feed all those people

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Ok so we going to cross multiply.
We going to put it in a fraction form. People / boxes.
20 people 50 people
————— = —————-
6 boxes X

Cross multiply
20 x (x) = 50 x 6
20x = 300 Now divide 20 on both sides
—— ——-
20 20
X = 15

Final answer : 15 boxes will feed the 50 people.
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