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Morning knows that 15 pounds of hamburger meat will make 60 hamburgers. If Morgan needs to make 100 hamburgers for the picnic. How much hamburger meat does she need to buy?

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User PJW
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Answer:

25 pounds of hamburger meat

Explanation:

you need 15 pounds for 60 hamburgers.

We can turn this into a fraction.

15/60

now we need to make the denominator a power of ten.

15/60

=5/20

=25/100

She needs 25 pounds of hamburger meat

User Minsheng Liu
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Answer is 25

16 divided by 4 is 15
100 divided by 4 is 25
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