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At the flag shop, for every 13 stripes there are 50 stars. If there are 10,000 stars, how many more stars are there than stripes?

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Answer: 7,400

Explanation:

First, we need the values of stars and stripes. So, let's start with the 50 stars. If there are 10,000 stars, we need to divide 10,000 by 50 to see how many sets of the 13 stripes th ÷ere are.

10,000 ÷ 50 = 200 sets of stripes.

We know that each set of stripes has 13 stripes, and there are 50 sets.

We will now multiply 13 with 20, to finf the total number of stripes:

13 x 200 = 2,600 stripes.

But WAIT! We aren't done yet!

We need to subtract 2,600 from 10,000 so that we can find how many more stars are there than stripes.

10,000-2,600 is 7,400

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