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1.89 people need to ride the elevator to the top of the skyscraper. The elevator can hold 17 people at a time . How many trips will the elevator need to make ?

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It will need 12 trips. 189 divided by 17 is 11.1 but you can have a fraction of a trip. So it will take 12 trips to get everyone.
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