Alec has a box of chocolates. There are 42 chocolates in the box, and one-seventh of them contain nuts. How many chocolates in Alec's box contain nuts?

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Alec has a box of chocolates. There are 42 chocolates in the box, and one-seventh of them contain nuts. How many chocolates in Alec's box contain nuts?

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6 of them contain nuts.

Multiply 42 by 1/7 (the part of the whole) to get 6.

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