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Jean-Claude equally shared a box of chocolates with two of his friends. The box weighed 9/5 pounds. How many pounds of chocolate did each person receive?

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I find that if you transform fractions into decimals, they become marginally easier to work with. Nine over five in decimal form is one point eight. If we divide 1.8 by three (Jean-Claude and his two friends), then we come up with the answer 0.6, which, once turned back into a fraction, would be six over ten, or three over five.

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