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28. MODELING REAL LIFE You and your friend are making pear

tarts for a bake sale. Your recipe uses- times the weight of the
diced pears used in your friend's recipe. Your friend's recipe
calls for 0.3 pound of diced pears. How many pounds of pears
should you buy to have enough for both recipes?
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Answer: 4 packs so you have extra

Explanation:

User A Sad Dude
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I think the answer is 0.65. I just divided 7 by 6, since it's 7/6. Then, I multiplied that by 0.3, because you need 7/6 times that amount. Finally, I added the 0.35 that I got and the 0.3, so you would buy enough for both recipes.

User Steve Losh
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