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Fred can drink 8 3/4 sodas in 5 minutes at thus rate how many sodas can fred drink in 2mintues

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He can drink 2/5 of the 8 3/4 sodas.


(2)/(5) x 8 (3)/(4) = (2)/(5) x (35)/(4)

The answer is 7/2 or 3 1/2 sodas.

Of course, Fred would be better off is he drank water instead of soda. :-)


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