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Mallorie has $3 in her wallet. If this is 10% of her monthly allowance, what is her monthly allowance?

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Mallorie's monthly allowance would be $30.

(100)/(y) = (10)/(3) X represents the unknown value of the monthly allowance. therefore, we can use the cross multiplying method to multiply 100 and 3 because 100 is the total value of the monthly allowance and we divide by 10 to get us a result of 30.
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Her monthly allowance is 30 dollars
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