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Maria creates a new board game. Her board game uses toothpicks as game pieces. Each board game requires 10

toothpicks. If Maria has 62 toothpicks, how many of her board games will she be able to put together?

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Answer:

6 games

Explanation:

The number of games can be found by determining the number of groups of 10 Maria can make.

62/10 = 6.2

Maria can make 6 groups of 10 and will have a fraction of a group left over. Maria will be able to put together 6 of her board games.

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