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Algebra Difficulty 1.0 Junior Find the answer United Kingdom

The 'Penny's Puddings' company uses one tonne of rice to make twenty-five thousand cans of rice pudding. Each tonne of rice contains approximately fifty million grains of rice. Approximately how many grains of rice are there in a can of Penny's rice pudding?

(A) $200$ (B) $2000$ (C) $5000$ (D) $50\,000$ (E) $1\,250\,000$

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