Lizette works in her school’s vegetable garden. Every Tuesday, she pulls weeds for 15 minutes. Weeding seems like a never-ending task. Each time Lizette goes to the garden, there are just as many weeds as the week before! An illustration of a raised garden bed with many weeds and some tall with broad leaves with a few small-sized vegetable plants poking up through the weeds.

Lizette deduces that the weeds must be reproducing because there is no such thing as
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