An orange costs $.09. How much would 2 dozen oranges cost?
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Explanation:
To begin with,
In addition, if each orange costs
Another way of thinking about it that may help you do things like this in your head. If you wished to do so.
Explanation:
Doing it is much quicker than explaining it
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The calculation we need to do is
Let's explore another way of doing it.....
1 dozen is 12, so 2 dozen is
But
Multiplying a number by 10 or 2 is much easier than multiplying by 12.
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So
So