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Thank you We sneak And here's your shmoop du jour

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Brought to you by big pharma They have less involvement

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with grossly oversized chickens than you may think All right

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The smallville pharmaceutical company wants to scale up their new

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drug a pill called no door that prevents smelly feet

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It's made in one leader batches in a lab using

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point two kilograms of their secret ingredient The company wants

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to scale the drug to a fifty gallon badge The

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secret ingredient is sold in eight point five kilogram packages

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How many full packages of secret ingredient does the company

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have to buy to make one fifty gallon batch and

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hear the potential answers All right How many Well something

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about this problem really stinks And seeing as how everyone's

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shoes are still on we suspect it could not be

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cured by a dose of no door The smallville scientists

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make this stuff in one leader batches but the problems

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asking us to scale that amount Teo gallons which means

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this one is going to require a bit of conversion

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Holly lucia all right this will be a strictly measurement

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related conversion deal right We're being asked how many packages

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of the secret ingredient that company would need to buy

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to make one fifty gallon batch of their product How

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do we get from point a to point b here

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Okay first things first how many leaders are there in

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fifty gallons were given the conversion rate here Fortunately one

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gallon equals three point seven eight five leaders while we've

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got fifty of these suckers so we'll take fifty times

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three point seventy five to get one hundred eighty nine

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point two Five leaders Now if the product is normally

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made in one leader batches with point two kilograms of

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the secret ingredient we should be able to multiply one

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hundred eighty nine point two five times Point two to

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get the amount of secret ingredient that would be required

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for all fifty gallons Well one hundred eighty nine point

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two five times Point two is thirty seven point eighty

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five kilograms that's close to option c which is a

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big old liar face We're not looking for the number

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of kilograms We're looking for the number of packages people

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read the question read it again Each package contains eight

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point five kilograms so let's take our thirty seven point

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eight five and divide That number by eight point five

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to get four point four Five Well sadly these things

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aren't sold by the forty five hundredth of a package

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so we'll need to round up That means the company

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would need to purchase five packages and then they'd have

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a little bit bonus Secret ingredient left over So option

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a is the winner here The other winners of course

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are all those poor individuals out there who have been

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living with stinky feet syndrome for so long on the

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people around them including many who have been forced to 00:02:35.31 --> [endTime] spend years in oder therapy

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