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Six pens can be bought for £2.88. how many pens can be bought for £7.20

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6 for £2.88
? for £7.20

(6)/(2.88) =
(?)/(7.20)
(?)×(2.88) = (7.20)×(6)
? =
(7.20*6)/(2.88)
? = 15
15 Pens can be bought for £7.20
User Tedy Pranolo
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o3 We'll first you need to divide (we're making this into just hundreds here) 288 by 6 and 6 goes into 288 48 times so each pen must be £0.48 so now we need to divide 720 by 48 to see how many pens can be bought with that amount: 720÷48=15 so 15 pens can be bought with £7.20



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