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Bethany ordered 12 pizzas for a party. if each person eats 3/8 of a pizza, how many people can bethany feed with 12 pizzas?

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We are given that:
one person would eat 3/8 of a pizza.

To know the number of people that would eat 12 pizzas, all you have to do is cross multiplication as follows:
1 person .............> 3/8 pizza
?? person ............> 12 pizzas
Number of people = (12*1) / (3/8) = 32 people
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