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Chef Rita is cooking for a Sunday brunch. She knows that 22 pancakes can feed 8 people. She is wondering how many people left parenthesis right parenthesis she can feed with 55 pancakes. She assumes each
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Chef Rita is cooking for a Sunday brunch. She knows that 22 pancakes can feed 8 people. She is wondering how many people left parenthesis right parenthesis she can feed with 55 pancakes. She assumes each person eats the same quantity of pancakes.

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Chef Rita can feed 20 people.

Step-by-step explanation:
If 22 pancakes can feed 8 people, then 11 pancakes can feed 4 people (divide both by 2). Since 55 is 11x5, you multiply 4 times 5 to get 20.

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