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Trevor earns $6 for each meter of fishing net he repairs. He repaired 250 centimeters of net on friday and 450 centimeters on Saturday. How much money did he earn?

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Your answer is $42. Here's why: 100 cm is 1 m, you have 700 cm, so it would be 7m, he gets $6 for every meter, so 6 times 7 is 42.
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1 meter=100 centimeters. Therefore on Friday he repaired 2.5 meters and on Saturday he repaired 4.5 meters. In total he earned 4.5(6)+2.5(6) which equals $42
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