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Omar has 2and 3/4 cups of dough to make dumplings.if he uses 3/16 cup of dough for each dumpling,how many dumplings can omar make

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2 and 3/4 = ( 3 + 4*2 ) / 4 = 11 / 4

divide 11 / 4 by 3 / 16
→ ( 11 / 4 ) / ( 3 / 16 )
= ( 11 / 4 ) * ( 16 / 3 )

and you can get 44 / 3

44 / 3 = 14 and 2/3

so the answer is 14
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