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Ben had 2.1096 pounds of sugar. How many pounds of sugar did he have to the nearest thousandth? 

          Ben had 2.1096 pounds of sugar. How many pounds of sugar did he have to the nearest thousandth?

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Elementary and Intermediate Algebra
Elementary and Intermediate Algebra
Alan S. Tussy, R. David Gustafson 5th Edition
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00:01 Okay, a recipe calls for 3 .18 kilograms of sugar.
00:04 And you want to know how many bags, 1 .5 ,000 bags of sugar you need buy from the store.
00:11 So we have to convert kilograms to pounds.
00:14 So we have 3 .18 kilograms.
00:23 Every one kilogram is that many pounds.
00:25 So we want to get really kilograms.
00:27 The kilograms would have to go in your denominator.
00:29 So the kilograms would cancel.
00:31 And the 2 .20462 will go in your numerator...
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