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A potter use 3/5 of a pound of clay to make a bowl.How many bowls the potter make from 10 pounds.

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10 divided by 3/5 = 10 x 5/3 = 50/3 = 16 and 2/3 bowls.

That's the mathematical answer. In the real-world pottery shop, he can
make 16 complete bowls, and have 2/5 pound of clay left over.
User Abhishek Gangwar
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We are writing proportion:

(3)/(5) of a pound of clay -1 bowl
10 pound of clay - x bowl
We are looking for x which is amount of bowl
After cross multiplication:

(3)/(5)x=10
x=
(50)/(3)=16,66 ,so from 10 pounds we will make 16 bowls.
User Amitesh Ranjan
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