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A bowl contains 7 ounces of strawberry and 5 ounces of vanilla ice cream. Jeremy prefers...

A bowl contains 7 ounces of strawberry and 5 ounces of vanilla ice cream. Jeremy prefers strawberry ice cream to vanilla in a 5-to-4 ratio. Suppose that Jeremy will use points to assign value to portions of the ice cream.

a. How many points might Jeremy assign to each ounce of strawberry ice cream?

b. How many points might Jeremy assign to each ounce of vanilla ice cream?

c. What is the total point value Jeremy would assign to the bowl of ice cream?

d. Give two different divisions of the ice cream that Jeremy would consider to be fair.

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