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Stretch your thinking Will you make a new ten to solve this problem? 59 + 17 explain

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yes i guess we could use another 10 in this problem 
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Hey there! :D

So you're wondering if you can make a new ten in this problem, right? Well, lets find out! We can simply do 59 + 17 = 59 + 1 + 16 = 60 + 16 = 76. When we did 59 + 1, that is a new ten then we added to 16. So yes, we did make a new ten in this problem.

Hope it helps! ;)

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