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Cora and some of her friends at school started a recycling club. They placed 9 paper recycling bins around campus. Each bin has a capacity of 28.13 quarts. What is the total capacity the bins can hold?
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Cora and some of her friends at school started a recycling club. They placed 9 paper recycling bins around campus. Each bin has a capacity of 28.13 quarts. What is the total capacity the bins can hold?

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253.17 quarts

Explanation:

Multiplication is a shortcut for repeated addition. We could add up 28.13 quarts 9 times to find the total capacity, or we can simply calculate ...

(9 bins)(28.12 quarts/bin) = 253.17 quarts . . . total capacity

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