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8 Cooking in Batches

L amar has a small grill on his deck where he is going to cook the hamburgers. However, the grill will only hold 4 burgers at a time. If Lamar wants to make enough burgers for each per- son to have 2, he’ll need 12 burgers because he’s expecting 6 people. This means he’ll need to cook a batch at a time. How many batches will he need?

12 ÷ 4 = 3

He’ll need to make 3 batches.

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