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CEMC Gauss (Grade 8), 2010

Algebra Difficulty 1.0 Junior Find the answer Canada

Greg bought a $300$ gram container of sunflower seeds. He found that $15$ seeds weighed about $1$ gram. Approximately how many sunflower seeds are in the container?

(A) $600$ (B) $4500$ (C) $60\,000$ (D) $45\,000$ (E) $6000$

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