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Jessica’s mother made a set of cookies (the set had 328 cookies). She had to throw 1/4 of the cookies as they were over-baked. She made 4 more sets of cookies. How many cookies she had now?

1558

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Daniel uses 16/24 of a roll of wrapping paper to wrap six equal-sized presents. What fraction of the roll of wrapping paper does each present use?If the roll of wrapping paper measures 2m 70cm. how much wrapping paper each present use?

30 cm

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Thelma used 2/3 of a bottle of glitter and 3/4 of a liter of paint to cover 5 large size Christmas balls. How much glitter will be used for the other 12 Christmas balls?

8/5 or 1 3/5

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The kitchen assistant is helping the chef to serve soup. The chef made 3 pots of soup and the assistant is putting 2 3/16 cups of cream on top of the soup in each bowl. There are 12 cups of cream. How many bowls of soup can the assistant he

64

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In an aquarium, 12/32 of the fish are clown fish. The clown fish are shared equally between nine fish tanks. What fraction of the fish in each tank are clown fish? If there are 120 fish, how many fish in each tank are clown fish?

5 clown fish

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Sanjaya shares 6/21 of his football cards with his eight friends. What fraction of the football cards does each friend receive? If Marcus has 56 cards, how many cards does each friend receive?

2 cards

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Milcha planted 40/50 of a packet of sunflower seeds in twenty equal rows. What fraction of the packet of sunflower seeds does each row contain? If there are 375 seeds in the packet, how many sunflower seeds does each row contain?

15 seeds

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A baker is making croissants. He has 18 pounds of dough. Each croissant is made from 1/8 pounds of dough. How many croissants can he make?

144 croissants

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Meera uses 12/15 of a bag of chocolate chips to make ten muffins. What fraction of the bag of chocolate chips does each muffin contain? If there are 225 chocolate chips in a bag, how many chocolate chips does each muffin use?

18 chocolate chips

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Find the answer of

4 1/117

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Aditya ate 3/7 of a pizza and Jasmine ate 2/4 of the other pizza. If both the pizzas were of the same size, who ate less pizza?

Aditya

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Solve this question

6 1/4

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Solve this question

2 1/5

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According to the food label on a box cookies, each box has 16 servings and each serving contains 4 cookies. The weight of the box of cookies is 1/2 kilograms. What is the weight of each cookie?

Each cookie weighs 1/128 kg.

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Grandma made an apple pie. Josh and his brother Joe finished 4/5 of it. Then, three friends came over and shared the leftover pie. How much of the pie did each friend eat?

Each friend ate 1/15 of the pie

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Solve this question

9 1/2

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