SOLUTION: Candy comes in 3 and 1/2 pound bags. At a class party, the boys in the class ate 2 and 1/4 bags of candy and the girls in the class ate 1 and 1/3 bags of candy. How many pounds of

Question 1207454: Candy comes in 3 and 1/2 pound bags. At a class party, the boys in the class ate 2 and 1/4 bags of candy and the girls in the class ate 1 and 1/3 bags of candy. How many pounds of candy did the class eat?
Answer by ikleyn(52778) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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    3 * 2 + 3 * 1 =  +  =  + .


Write it with the common denominator 24

     +  =  +  =  =  = 12.


ANSWER.  The class eats  12 pounds of candies.

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