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4.3 Exercise 122

Avg difficulty 2.5

Baking A booth at the county fair sells fudge by the pound. Their award winning “Chocolate Overdose” fudge contains 2232 \frac{2}{3} cups of chocolate chips per pound.

  1. ⓐ How many cups of chocolate chips are in a half-pound of the fudge?
  2. ⓑ The owners of the booth make the fudge in 1010-pound batches. How many chocolate chips do they need to make a 1010-pound batch? Write your results as improper fractions and as a mixed numbers.

OpenStax Prealgebra 2e, 4.3 Multiply and Divide Mixed Numbers and Complex Fractions, exercise 122

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