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Jordan has 4/5 as many DVDs as Joseph. If Jordan has 56 DVDs, then how many does joseph have?

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4/5 of 56 is 44.8 even though you cant own .8 of a dvd but that is math logic
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Jordan has 4/5 as many DVDs as Joseph means joseph has more DVDs than Jordan. number of joseph's DVDs * 4/5 = 56 so
number of joseph's DVDs= 56 * 5/4 = 70
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