Question

a restaurant uses 4 1/4 pounds of meat to make 5 hamburgers. How much meat is used to make fifteen hamburgers?

Answer 1

Because 15 hamburgers = 5 hamburgers x 3, we have (4 1/4) x 3 = (17/4) x 3 = 51/4 = 12 3/4 pounds of meat to make 15 hamburgers;

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