Yes, there was a mistake in applying the distributive property. If you have to perform
you have to multiply both terms in the parenthesis by 3, not just the first one.
So, the correct expansion would be
Vincent bought 25 pound bag of rice. He cooked 6.25 pounds of the rice. He stored the rest of the rice in 3 3/4 pound portions.
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