A notebook company creates 100 page notebooks. For each notebook, they need 100 sheets of lined paper and 2 covers (front and back). If the company wants to make 50,000 notebooks, how many total pieces (inside sheets and covers) will the company need?

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Ratios are used to show a relationship between two things. In this case, it is the relationship between the number of pieces and total number of notebooks. The problem tells us that each notebook requires 102 pieces (100 sheets of paper, 1 front cover, and 1 back cover). 102 : 1 First, we want to put the ratio into fractional form. You put the unit/amount you're trying to figure out (total number of pieces) as the numerator and the the unit/amount you know (number of notebooks) as the denominator. ¹⁰²/₁ Then, we multiply this fraction by the number of number of notebooks they want to make. This will give us the total number of pieces needed to make all of the notebooks. ^{102 pieces}/_{1 notebook} • 50,000 notebooks = ^5,100,000/₁ = 5,100,0000 pieces

A Notebook Company Creates 100 Page Notebooks