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

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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?
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    31%2F2 * 21%2F4 + 31%2F2 * 11%2F3 = %287%2F2%29%2A%289%2F4%29 + %287%2F2%29%2A%284%2F3%29 = 63%2F8 + 28%2F6.


Write it with the common denominator 24

    63%2F8 + 28%2F6 = %2863%2A3%29%2F24 + %2828%2A4%29%2F24 = %2863%2A3%2B28%2A4%29%2F24 = 301%2F24 = 1213%2F24.


ANSWER.  The class eats  1213%2F24 pounds of candies.

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