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A middle school conducts a recycling dive, during which 1/5 of the materials collected

were bottles and was paper Cardboard boxes made up 1/10 of the material. How
much of the total do these three categories of items represent?

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Answer: There would have been, 20 bottles collected, 25 pieces of paper collected, and 10 cardboard boxes. Theses three therefore show 55/100, of the total amount collected.

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Answer:

There would have been, 20 bottles collected, 25 pieces of paper collected, and 10 cardboard boxes. Theses three therefore show 55/100, of the total amount collected.

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