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Lorenzo bought 15 / 16 pounds of ground beef.He wants to make hamburgers that weigh 3 / 16 pounds each.How many hamburgers can he make?

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FIrst of all, i recommends you to do a model. Of 15/16 and 3/16 then compare them and take away the same denominators. What would you get? 15 and 3 so you would divide both of them And you will get 5 as your answer, remember to do an explanation on how you got it. :)

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If each burger is 3/16. You can do 15 divide 3. The answer is 5
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