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Mrs. Barrett will be serving 40 people at Lydee’s birthday party. She plans to make three meatballs for each person. Mrs. Barrett spent $39.00 at the store on the meat, which sells for $3.25 per pound. If Mrs. Barrett wants to make all the meatballs the same size, what will be the size, in pounds, of each meatball?

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40 people with 3 meatballs per person means 3 * 40 = 120 total meatballs.

She spent $39 on meat at $3.25/lb.
$39/($3.25/lb) = 12 lb
She bought 12 lb of meat.

Now we find how much meat per meatball.
12 lb / 120 meatballs = 0.1 lb per meatball

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