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The library charges 0.15 a day for each day a book how many days late is a book if the fine is 2.10

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the answer would be 14 days
User Aleksei Chernenkov
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To work this out we divide the total charge by the daily charge:
2.10 / 0.15 = 14 days

The book is 14 days late.
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