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Ben walked into a hardware store and asked the price of some items. The salesman said: One costs $1 Eight costs $1 Seventeen cost $2 One hundred four costs $3 One thousand seventy two costs $4 What was Ben buying?

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Ben was buying home address numbers and they cost $1 per digit.
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