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wallace has a $50 bill. pizza pies cost 12.25 each. if p represents the number of pizzas he buys, write an expression for the change he recieves

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Since he has to give 50, and 12.25*p is the amount of money he has to spend (since it's 12.25 per pizza), we have 50-12.25=change
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