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Malia bought 77 rolls of paper towels. She got 71.471.4 meters of paper towels in all. How many meters of paper towels were on each roll?\newline____\_\_\_\_ meters

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Q. Malia bought 77 rolls of paper towels. She got 71.471.4 meters of paper towels in all. How many meters of paper towels were on each roll?\newline____\_\_\_\_ meters
  1. Identify total meters: Step 11: Identify total meters and number of rolls.\newlineMalia has 71.471.4 meters of paper towels in total and bought 77 rolls.\newlineTo find out how many meters are on each roll, we need to divide the total meters by the number of rolls.\newlineCalculation: 71.4÷771.4 \div 7
  2. Perform division: Step 22: Perform the division to find meters per roll. \newline71.4÷7=10.271.4 \div 7 = 10.2\newlineSo, each roll has 10.210.2 meters of paper towels.

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