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The government of a country increased the minimum wage from $21 to $30. A factory owner had to lay off some of his workers because he could not afford to pay all of them. How many people lost their jobs?

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According to your question you need to know how many workers the company has and how much budget they have to keep the employees, the only thing that is done is that the total budget is divided by 30 and the result will be the number of employees that can be keep in the company

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8 people would lose their jobs.
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