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The robber stole only 32 pounds of quarters out of the coin machine. Quarters are weighed in ounces. If there are 16 ouncess in 1 pound how many ounces of quarters were stolen

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512 ounces. If (1y=16x) than (1(32)y=16(32)x)thus x=(32x16) x=512 ounces.
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the number of ounces stolen is 512
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