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Mary needs to order pizza for 18 students. Each student should get 1/4 of a pizza. How many pizzas should Mary order? How many pizza will be left over?

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If each student gets 1/4 of a pizza, then Mary would have to order 5 pizzas to feed all the 18 students. When you divide 18 by 4 to find how many pizza you get 4.5. However it isn’t possible to order 4.5 pizza so you would have to order 5 pizzas. There would be 1/2 leftover
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