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Okay Aspiring math drill people Here we go moving forward

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in celebration of cinco de my oh willie wants to

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make salsa The recipe calls for one fourth of a

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cup of onions for two servings of salsa That's one

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fourth cup onions for two servings If willy only wants

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to make half a serving of salsa how many cups

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of onions should he used Well we're glad willi celebrating

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cinco tamayo even though it's likely he has no idea

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what exactly it is that he's celebrating Yeah it's that

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well maybe he's planning this party for one reason because

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of his confusion of the holiday and what it means

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All right well you do You willy If willie needs

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a fourth of a cup of onions for two servings

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of salsa then he only needs half of that for

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one serving right to be a fourth time's half So

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it's an eighth right So that be for one serving

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But in this problem willie wants even less than one

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serving He only wants half of a serving so we

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need teo do that home multiplying by a half thing

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again So that's one eighth time's one half That gets

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you one sixteenth Willie needs to use one sixteen The

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answer's Aye right there Cup of onions and well for

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our next trick we're going to calculate the perfect chip

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the salsa ratio using the taste test method

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