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prealgebra intermediate

Problem

Alice wants to buy pounds of veal at the grocery store, but the scales at the store only show weight in kilograms. If one kilogram is pounds, how many kilograms of veal should Alice buy? (You may use a calculator on this problem; answer to the nearest hundredth.)
Solution
Since Alice wants to buy pounds of veal, we multiply the quantity of pounds by the conversion factor to obtain .
Final answer
1.36