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### Instruction:
Melanie is making meatballs for dinner. The recipe calls for breadcrumbs. To make the breadcrumbs Melanie is going to tear 2 slices of bread into smaller pieces and then add them to a blender to grind them into fine crumbs. First she tears the bread slices each in half, then tears those halves in half. How many bread pieces is Melanie going to put into the blender?

### Response:
Melanie started with 1 slice of bread that she tore in half, making 2 halves.
She takes both of those halves and tears them each in half, 2 halves x 2 more halves in half = <<2*2=4>>4 pieces per slice of bread.
She is using 2 slices of bread x 4 pieces each = <<2*4=8>>8 pieces overall to add to the blender.
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