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Did you know that five out of three people have trouble with fractions.

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Calvin Trillin
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: December 5
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Kansas City
Missouri
Calvin Marshall Trillin
Fractions
Trouble
Five
Three
People

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