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Madison needs to buy enough meat to make 1,000 hamburgers for the company picnic each hamburger will weigh 0.25 lb how many pounds of hamburgers meat should Madison buy?



User Jay Wardell
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Answer:

Madison should buy 250 pounds of meat.

Explanation:

I. When 1 hambugers meant per 0.25

Find 1,000 hambugers per 0.25 * x

1 = 0.25

1,000 * 1 = 0.25 * 1,000

1,000 = 250

That makes 1,000 meat per 250 pounds.

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