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mr. morris has a class of 14 students. he can spend $24 on each student to buy math supplies for the year. he first buys all the students calculators, which costs a total of $95.20. after buying the calculators, how does he have left to spend on each student?

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He could spend $17.20 on each student
mr. morris has a class of 14 students. he can spend $24 on each student to buy math-example-1
User Nirav Hathi
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Hello!

First of all let's divide and find how much each calculator cost.

95.2/14=$6.80

Now we will subtract from 24.

24-6.8= 17.2

Mr. Morris has $17.2 left to spend on each student.

I hope this helps!
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