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. How many pounds of candy did

Question 1208322: 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. How many pounds of candy did the class eat?
Answer by ikleyn(52781) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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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. How many pounds of candy did the class eat?
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      2 * 3 + 1 * 3 =  +  =  +  =  +  =

    =  =  = 12.542 pounds  (rounded).    ANSWER

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