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Zoe needs to buy beads to make jewelry. For each earning, Zoe uses 3 small blue beads, 1 metallic bead, and 2 large green beads. What is the total number of beads Zoe will need to buy to make 8 pairs of earrings? Show your work and explain the answer

User Achahbar
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Zoe will need 48 beads in total to make 6 pairs of earrings because she uses 6 for one earring she will need 6*8 to make 8 which would me 48.

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First you have to find out how many beads it takes to make one earring, we can do this by adding the numbers of different beads:

3+1+2= 6

For each earring your need 6 beads, we know we need to make 8 pairs which is 16 earrings (8x2).

We can now times the 6 beads by the 16 earrings we need.

6x16=96

She will need to buy 96 beads.
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