Cooking classes
Ms. Wright’s two cooking classes are making a total of 60 sweet potato pies. Each pie requires 2 1/4 sweet potatoes. Her first class makes 1/3 of the total number of pies needed. Exactly how many sweet potatoes will her second class need in order to make the remaining pies?
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