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A chocolate maker melts three blocks of chocolate weighing 5.4 oz 6.1 oz and 5.7 oz if each truffle takes 0.4 oz of chocolate how many truffles can he make

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To find out how many truffles the chocolate maker can make, we first need to determine the total weight of the chocolate melted.

  1. Add the weights of the three blocks of chocolate: \[ 5.4 , \text{oz} + 6.1 , \text{oz} + 5.7 , \text{oz} \]

    \[ = 17.2 , \text{oz} \]

  2. Since each truffle requires 0.4 oz of chocolate, we divide the total weight of the chocolate by the amount needed for each truffle: \[ \frac{17.2 , \text{oz}}{0.4 , \text{oz/truffle}} = 43 \]

Thus, the chocolate maker can make 43 truffles.