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every 5 1/2 cups of flour weighs 1 9/16 pounds. use a unit rate to show how u could determine if there are more than lee than 35 cups of flour in a 10-pound bag of flour

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Okay. So to find the unit rate,divide pounds of flour by the number of cups. Turn the mixed numbers into improper fractions, which are 11/2 and 25/16. To divide fractions, keep the fraction the same, change the division symbol into multiplication, and flip the second fraction over. Then, multiply straight across. 11/2 * 16/25 is 176/50 or 3 13/25 in simplest form. To find out if there are more or less than 35 cups of flour in a 10-pound bag, you can round the number to the nearest whole number and multiply it by 10. For the exact unit rate, there are 3 13/25 cups of flour per 1 pound bag. Now, multiply that number by 10. Going back to improper fractions, 176/50 * 10/1 is 1,760/50 or 35 1/5 in simplest form. There are more than 35 cups of flour in a 10-pound bag of flour.
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