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A restaurant uses 4 pounds of potatoes for a party of 12 people. If they are cooking potatoes for a party of 60 people, what should they do?
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A restaurant uses 4 pounds of potatoes for a party of 12 people. If they are cooking potatoes for a party of 60 people, what should they do?

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60/12=5
5·4=20
They should use 20 pounds of potatoes
Hope this helps

User AJPerez
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they should use 20 potatoes because if they are adding five times more people than they need to times the potatoes too.
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