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Rachel and her friends are making necklaces out of beads and straws. They plan to use 12 beads and 5 straws for each necklace. They have a jar of beads that contains a total of 2,700 beads. How many necklaces can they make?
Write an equation to solve the problem.

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12x = 2,700
---- ---------
12 12

x = 225

They can make a total of 225 necklaces
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