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you have $16 and a coupon for a five dollar discount at a local supermarket a bottle of olive oil cost seven dollars how many bottles of olive oil can you buy

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5+16=21
you can buy something that costs $21, then it discounts 5 and brings it down to 16

7 times number of olive=21
divide both sides by 7
number of olive oil bottles=3

answer is 3 bottles
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