The instructions on a -gram bag of coffee beans say that proper brewing of a large mug of pour-over coffee requires grams of coffee beans. What is the greatest number of properly brewed large mugs of coffee that can be made from the coffee beans in that bag?
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We have a -gram bag and each large mug needs grams. Therefore, number of full mugs we can make is
We simply do the division to find the number of bags we could get if we could allocate partial bags, and drop the remainder. In this case, we could fill full bags and half of the next bag, but the half bag is irrelevant here.
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