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Solve each of the following problems using one or more conversion factors:
a. Wine is 12% alcohol by volume. How many milliliters of alcohol are in a O.750-L bottle of wine?
b. Blueberry high-fiber muffins contain 51% dietary fiber by mass. If a package with a net weight of 12 oz contains six muffins, how many grams of fiber are in each muffin?
c. A jar of crunchy peanut butter contains 1.43 kg of peanut butter. If you use 8.0% of the peanut butter for a sandwich, how many ounces of peanut butter did you take out of the container?
d. In a candy factory, the nutty chocolate bars contain 22.0% pecans by mass. If 5.0 kg of pecans were used for candy last Tuesday, how many pounds of nutty chocolate bars were made?
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