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Nikki wants to buy a dog bed that costs $87. She earns $4 per week for folding laundry and $2 per week for pulling weed how many weeks will Nikki have to do her chores in order to earn enough money to pay for the dog bed explain

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She would need to spend 14 1/2 weeks.

This is because you would add 4 and 2, so she’s earning 6 dollars total per week.

Then you would divide that by the total of the dog bed, so 87.

87 / 6 is 14.5
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