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Your cousin gave you $9 to buy a present with. This covered 3/5 of the cost. How much did the present cost?

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If the $9 is 3/5 of the amount of the present, then it will be 9 divided by 0.60, which is 15. You can check this by putting in 15 times 0.60, which is 9

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