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The Great Foods Warehouse contains 9435 pounds of watermelons. There are 6555.569 pounds of watermelons in the Tasty Food Warehouse. How many more pounds does the Tasty Food Warehouse need to have the same amount of watermelons as the Great Food Warehouse?

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They'll need 2,879.431 more pounds 
User FelixHo
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Answer: 2879.431 pounds

Explanation:

Given : The Great Foods Warehouse contains 9435 pounds of watermelons.

There are 6555.569 pounds of watermelons in the Tasty Food Warehouse.

Clearly , 9435 > 6555.569.

By using Subtraction operation, The amount of watermelon needed by Tasty Food Warehouse to have to get the same amount of watermelons as the Great Food Warehouse will be :-

9435-6555.569=2879.431 pounds

Hence, the Tasty Food Warehouse needs to have 2879.431 pounds to gwt the same amount of watermelons as the Great Food Warehouse.

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