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Each of the 15,000 New England minutemen who occupied the hills in Boston was supplied with only 36 cartridges. If all 15,000 fires one fourth of their cartridges at the British, how many did they fire in all?

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well, 1/4 of 36 is 9, so 15000*9= 13500 cartridges in all
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