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Cheryl is organizing her movie collection. If each movie case is 3/4 inch wide, how many movies can fit on a shelf 5 1/4 wide?

User Elukem
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I believe she could fit 7 movies onto the shelf

Explanation:

first what I did was I turned the 5 1/4 into 21/4. Then I divided 21 by 3 (5 1/4 รท 3/4) in order to get the amount of movies. That equaled 7

The answer would be that she could fit 7 movies on the shelf.

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