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Lori can do 42 push-ups. This is ten less than twice the amount of push-ups her sister can do. How many push-ups can her sister do?

a) 24

b) 18

c) 16

d) 26

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All we have to do is minus 42 and 10 since it says 10 less which would give us 32 than we divided it by 2 since it says twice the amount which would give us 16

So the answer is C. 16
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