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Income Taxes (Tables) | 6 Months Ended
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Oct. 27, 2017
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract] |
Effective Tax Rates | Our effective tax rates for the periods presented were as follows:
|  | Six Months Ended |
|  | October 27, 2017 |  |  | October 28, 2016 |
Effective tax rates |  |  | 17.7 | % |  |  | 26.1 | %

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