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Cecilia bought a necklace made of silver and blue beads. The necklace had 30 silver beads and 36 blue beads. The information card on the necklace said that more than 1/3 of the beads are silver. Was the information on the card correct? Explain your answer.

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The information on the card was correct because their are 66 total beads and 1/3 of that is 22 and there are 30 silver beads so the statement is True 
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The information was correct.

We can solve this by making a ratio of silver to the total number of beads.

30/66 Divide both sides by 6

5/11>4/12?

Is 5/11 bigger than 1/3? Yep. It is. Therefore the information was correct.

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