Problema Solution

A restaurant uses 32 potatoes for each batch of potato soup it makes. About how many batches of soup can the restaurant make from it's last shipment of 1,275 potatoes

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Let 'x' represent the number of batches of soup that can be made from 1,275 potatoes.

Now we can write the following equation:

32x = 1,275

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click here to see the equation solved for x

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x = 40 batches approximately

The restaurant can make about 40 batches of soup.