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Okay Next shmoop p mathey drill for you Here we

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go Emma wants tobe i come quat fruit at her

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local asian grocery store The come quads cost twenty four

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cents an ounce She makes ten dollars an hour at

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her part time job How many hours does emma need

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to work to buy twenty pounds come quads Not that

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one pound equals sixteen ounces Okay We'll include this instruction

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manual this one right here for emma just in case

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you know on how to eat Come quat If emma

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isn't the picture of health after eating a whopping twenty

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pounds of fruit well she'll at least have bigger muscles

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from lugging it all around We're dealing with a multi

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step question here so the first item of business is

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picking the appropriate unit After all one ounce isn't the

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same thing as one pound right Luckily the question generously

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provides the conversion rate Holly lucia so apply that to

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the price of fruit per ounce to find the price

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per pound right with sixteen ounces in a pound So

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take twenty four times sixteen That gets us three eighty

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four a pound for come quat Emma wants twenty pounds

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have come Quite so How much money does she need

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Well that's twenty times three eighty four gets us seventy

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six eighty Now we need to know how many hours

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she'll need to work to make that much money assuming

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she's on a base salary in collects ten dollars an

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hour Well you'd just divide seventy six eighty by ten

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bucks and it gets seven point six eight hours So

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after working seven point six eight hours emma has enough

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money to buy her twenty pounds of kumquats None of

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the answer choices are decimals though So we're going to

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round up to eight hours to make sure emma isn't

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left stranded the checkout stand Okay that's it We're done

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