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A recipe for chili calls for 5 pounds of ground beef for 18 people. How many pounds of ground beef are needed for 50 people

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The answer is a repeating decimal of 13.888... round accordingly.

Set up the proportion 5/18 = x/50 18x=250 Solve for x
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