Twenty-four pencils are in a package. The students use 3/8

of the pencils. How many did they use?
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To find out how many pencils the students used, we can multiply the total number of pencils by the fraction of pencils they used, which is 3/8.

24 pencils * 3/8 = 72/8 = 9

Therefore, the students used 9 pencils.