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Wendy is inflating a spherical balloon for her brother's birthday party. She has used 3 full breaths so far and

her balloon is only 1/4 the width she needs. Assuming that she puts the same amount of air into the balloon
with each breath, how many more breaths does she need to finish the task?

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Answer: 9 more breaths.
Since Wendy has already blown 1/4 of the balloon, you only need to find the remaining 3/4 of the air needed to fill the balloon. As the problem said, it said that Wendy took 3 full breaths to blow 1/4 of it. Multiply 3 (amount of breaths for the balloon to be filled 1/4 of the way) by 3 (3x3) Now you can tell that for the balloon to be filled 3/4 for the width she needs, it will require 9 more full breaths. Hope that helped!
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