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Suppose now that before you sell anything, the price of everything doubles. That is, computers now sell for $4,880 per computer, and tablets now sell for $2,440 per tablet. If you again were to sell all your computers and tablets, and then wanted to use that money to buy only computers, you could afford to buy ______ computers.If instead you wanted to buy nothing but tablets, you could affordto buy ___________ tablets

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Answer: 3 Computer

Explanation: The computer was sold at $9,760 while the tablet was sold at $4,880.

If you want to use the same money to buy computer at current price, you could only by 1 computers at $9,760 each

If you want to buy nothing but tablets, you could only afford 3 tablets at $4,880 each.

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