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henry has one bag of groceries that weighs 9 pounds he has another bag of groceries that weighs 62 ounces how many ounces of grocery bags weigh altogether

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You can first use a rule of three to convert 9 pounds of groceries to ounces:


\begin{gathered} 1\text{ pound}\rightarrow16\text{ ounces} \\ 9\text{ pounds}\rightarrow x\text{ ounces} \end{gathered}
\begin{gathered} x=\frac{9\text{ pounds}\cdot16\text{ ounces}}{1\text{ pound}} \\ x=\frac{9\cdot16\text{ ounces}}{1} \\ x=(9\cdot16)/(1)\text{ ounces} \\ x=9\cdot16\text{ ounces} \\ x=144\text{ ounces} \end{gathered}

Now, add up all the groceries Henry has:


\begin{gathered} \text{Total weight of groceries}=9\text{ pounds }+62\text{ ounces} \\ \text{Total weight of groceries}=144\text{ ounces }+62\text{ ounces } \\ \text{Total weight of groceries}=206\text{ ounces } \end{gathered}

Therefore, in total the bags of groceries of Henry weight 206 ounces.

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