A pencil company used 49 grams of rubber to make 7 pencils, which is a rate of grams per pencil?

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Jack Spektor · Answer 1 · 2021-06-13T11:28:26+0000

Answer:

7 grams per pencil

Explanation:

49 grams/7 pencils

divided both parts of the fraction by 7 to simplify to the number of grams for just one pencil so you end up with:

7 grams/1 pencil