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Three pounds of rice is divided equally and put into bags. If each bag gets half a pound of rice, how many bags are there?

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So, there is three pounds. Each bag gets a half pound. Two half pounds = one full pound. One full pound is two bags. Another pound is another two bags. And same with another. So that'd be 6 bags, one half pound each.

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