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A hamster weighs 100 grams, and it eats 200 decigrams of food. How many decigrams does the hamster weigh after eating?

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There are approximately 10 decigrams per each gram, so that means in 100 grams there are exactly 1,000 decigrams. I came to the conclusion that the hamster weighs 1,000 decigrams, and if the hamster eats all 200 decigrams he will weigh approximately 1200 decigrams.
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