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Colleen bought 8 kilograms of apples and 2.5 kilograms of pears how many more grams of apples than pears did she buy

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Answer:

5.5

Explanation:

8-2.5 is 5.5

User Thebeancounter
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We know that Colleen bough 8 kg of apples and 2.5 kg of pears.

In order to find the DIFFERENCE in the amount that she bought, we SUBTRACT.

8 - 2.5 = 6.5 kg.

We can see that she bought 6.5 more kilograms of apples than pears.
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