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Victor collected 4

1/4
pounds of newspaper for the recycling drive. Clarence collected 5 times as much newspaper as Victor. How many pounds of newspaper did Clarence collect?

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Victor collected 4/1 or 4 pounds of newspaper.

Clarence collected 5 times as much as Victor, so he collected:

5*(4 pounds) = 20 pounds

Therefore, Clarence collected 20 pounds of newspaper.