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MATH / Alice wants to buy 3 pounds of veal at the grocery store, but the scales at the store only show weight in kilograms. If one kilogram is 2.20 pounds, how many kilograms of veal shou…

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Alice wants to buy 33 pounds of veal at the grocery store, but the scales at the store only show weight in kilograms. If one kilogram is 2.202.20 pounds, how many kilograms of veal should Alice buy? (You may use a calculator on this problem; answer to the nearest hundredth.)
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Alice wants to buy 3 pounds of veal at the grocery store, but the scales at the store only show weight in kilograms. If one kilogram is 2.20 pounds, how many kilograms of veal should Alice buy?  (You may use a calculator on this problem; answer to the nearest hundredth.)
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Alice wants to buy $3$ pounds of veal at the grocery store, but the scales at the store only show weight in kilograms. If one kilogram is $2.20$ pounds, how many kilograms of veal should Alice buy?  (You may use a calculator on this problem; answer to the nearest hundredth.)

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Level 4

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Prealgebra

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