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Algebra Difficulty 1.0 Junior Find the answer United Kingdom

Gill has had a baby girl! Weighing the baby at the clinic was not as much of a problem as when Gill was small, but the only available scales measured in imperial units. Baby weighed $8$ pounds $13$ ounces. Given that there are $16$ ounces in a pound and $1$ ounce is equivalent to approximately $28.35$ grams, what was the approximate weight, in kilograms, of Gill's baby?

(A) $3\text{ kg}$ (B) $4\text{ kg}$ (C) $5\text{ kg}$ (D) $6\text{ kg}$ (E) $7\text{ kg}$

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