A nursing home cafeteria director purchases white sugar in 50-pound bags. Each bag of sugar contains about 80 cups. If it takes $1 \frac { 1 } { 3 }$ cups of sugar for every gallon of sweet tea served, how many gallons of tea can be made with 50 pounds of sugar?

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To find the number of gallons of tea that can be made, divide the total cups of sugar by the cups needed per gallon: $ \frac{80}{1 \frac{1}{3}} = \frac{80}{\frac{4}{3}} = 80 \times \frac{3}{4} = 60 $ gallons.

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