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Grade 10 Conversion Question Okay I do online school and I've been stuck on this question for 2 weeks now. The teacher does it differently then I learned and I don't like talking to my teacher over skype so here I'll attach pictures of the question

Grade 10 Conversion Question Okay I do online school and I've been stuck on this question-example-1
Grade 10 Conversion Question Okay I do online school and I've been stuck on this question-example-1
Grade 10 Conversion Question Okay I do online school and I've been stuck on this question-example-2
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so you need to know that
1pound=16ounches
1oz=1ounce
1ton=2000pounds=2000 times 16=32000oz

therefor just divide

134893oz/16=pounds=8430 and 13/16 pounds or 8430.8125 pounds
to find tons, just divide the pounds by 2000
8430.8125/2000=4.21541 tons

134893oz=8430.8125 pounds=4.21541 tons



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