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Bob and Carol are making glass dolls. On average, they break 12% of the dolls. Today, they only broke 2/3 as many dolls as usual. If Bob and Carol made 175 glass dolls today, then how many did they break?
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Bob and Carol are making glass dolls. On average, they break 12% of the dolls. Today, they only broke 2/3 as many dolls as usual. If Bob and Carol made 175 glass dolls today, then how many did they break?

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If you would like to know how many dolls did Bob and Carol break today, you can calculate this using the following steps:

On average, they break: 12% of 175 = 12/100 * 175 = 21 dolls.
Today: 2/3 as many dolls as usual = 2/3 * 21 = 14 dolls

Result: Bob and Carol broke 14 dolls today.
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