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Elton just bought a new flash drive for his computer. He read in the literature that 7 flash drives can hold 1792 megabytes of data. Write and solve a proportion to find the number of megabytes of data that 5 flash drives can hold.

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Answer:

1280 megabytes

Explanation:

Take 1792 and divide that by 7 to get how many megabytes are in 1 flash drive. Then multiply the answer by 5 to get the number of megabytes that are in 5 flash drives.

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