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Jean is building a plastic model of a car. The instructions state that 9/10 of an ounce of glue is required to complete the model. Jean has purchased tubes of glue from the hobby shop, each

of which contains 1/5 of an ounce of glue. Use these fractions to create an expression for finding how many tubes of glue Jean will use to build her model. Then, find the solution to the expression.

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Since we can't have half a tube, Jean will need to round up to the nearest whole number. Jean will need to use 5 tubes of glue to complete her plastic model.

To find out how many tubes of glue Jean will use to build her model, we can create an expression using the given fractions.

Let's start by determining how many tubes of glue are needed for one ounce. Since each tube contains 1/5 of an ounce of glue, we can represent this as 1 / (1/5) = 5 tubes of glue per ounce.

Next, we need to calculate the number of tubes required for 9/10 of an ounce. We can multiply the number of tubes per ounce (5) by the fraction 9/10:

5 * (9/10) = 45/10 = 4.5 tubes

The expression 5 * (9/10) represents the number of tubes of glue Jean will need to build her model. The solution to this expression is 4.5 tubes.

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