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A pizza parlor uses 42 tomatoes for each batch of tomato sauce. About how many batches of sauce can the pizza parlor make from its last shipment of 1,236 tomatoes?

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Divide the total tomatoes in use by the average amount of tomatoes used in a single batch.

1,236/42 = 29.428 (about 29 batches can be made)