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Maura is making beaded bracelets for her school's craft fair. To make a bracelet, she strings 25 beads along a 20-centimeter-long piece of elastic cord. If Maura bought a pack of 1,000 beads to make bracelets, how many meters of the elastic cord should she buy?

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Answer: To make one bracelet, Maura needs 25 beads and 20 centimeters of elastic cord.

If Maura bought a pack of 1,000 beads, she can make:

1,000 beads ÷ 25 beads per bracelet = 40 bracelets

To make 40 bracelets, she will need:

40 bracelets × 20 centimeters of elastic cord per bracelet = 800 centimeters of elastic cord

To convert centimeters to meters, we divide by 100:

800 centimeters ÷ 100 centimeters per meter = 8 meters

Therefore, Maura should buy 8 meters of elastic cord to make 40 bracelets with a pack of 1,000 beads.

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