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A baker is going to make 24 blueberry pies. She wants to make sure each pie contains 3.5 cups of blueberries. How many cups of blueberries will she need?

Answer 1

84 cups of blueberries

1 pie = 3.5 cups of blueberries

24 pies = ? blueberries

Since you already know how many blueberries are needed for one pie, now to find how many blueberries are needed for 24 pies, multiply 24 by 3.5:

#24 * 3.5 =84#

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Answer 2

Mila Anderson

#84# cups.

The baker wants to make #24# blueberry pies. Since, #1# pie needs #3.5# cups of blueberries, She will need, #24xx3.5# cups #rArr 84# cups.

That's it, Hope this helps :)

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Answer 3

Everly Taylor

The baker will need a total of 84 cups of blueberries to make 24 blueberry pies, each containing 3.5 cups of blueberries.

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