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Peter the Leprechaun has 526 gold bars that he arranges evenly into 24 pots. Each gold bar weighs 2.2 pounds. A) How many bars of gold are in each pot?

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answer your looking for is 21.
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Answer: 21

Step-by-step explanation: The amount the gold bar weighs is extra information and is meant to throw you off, 526/24 is 21.9 but because you can’t have a decimal amount of gold bars it’s just 21 in each pot.

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