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Jan has $130 if she saves 25 per week in how many weeks will she have $600

User Wimpey
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For this we can set up an equation where w is the amount of weeks, 130 is the starting amount and 600 is the total.

130+25w=600
25w=470
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w=18.8

We will round 18.8 weeks to 19 weeks to make it a whole number.
It takes 19 weeks to save $600.
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