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Lucas bought a box of 56 nails. He used 3/4 of the nails in the box. How many nails did he use?
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Lucas bought a box of 56 nails. He used 3/4 of the nails in the box. How many nails did he use?

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For this problem you will make this into a proportion...
The proportion will look like this

x 3
---- = ----
56 4

The proportion can be solved by dividing 56 by 4 then multiplying by 3
the answer for x is 42.

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