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Lucy is shopping for her younger brother's birthday party. All ten of their family members will be at the party.

She finds a package of five noise-makers for $1.50. At this rate, how many packages will she need to buy so that each person has one noise maker?

A.4 packages
B.12 packages
C.6 packages
D.3 packages
E.2 packages

User Sinac
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2 packages because there is 10 family members and each package brings 5 so if it brings 5 then 2 packages would be 10. there are 10 family members so each family member will have a noise maker
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Answer:

2

Explanation:

one package has 5 and 5+5 =10 the amount of people at her brothers party so if one package has 5 and it takes two 5s to get to 10 then it is two

hopefully this helps :)

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