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Stamps are sold in booklets of 100,50 an 10 find as many different ways to buy 200 stamps

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Final answer:

To buy 200 stamps, there are 9 different ways using the available booklets of 100, 50, and 10 stamps.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find as many different ways to buy 200 stamps, we can use a combination of the available booklets. Let's start by looking at the booklets of 100 stamps:

  1. We can buy 2 booklets of 100 stamps each.
  2. We can buy 1 booklet of 100 stamps and 2 booklets of 50 stamps.

Now let's consider the booklets of 50 stamps:

  1. We can buy 4 booklets of 50 stamps.
  2. We can buy 3 booklets of 50 stamps and 1 booklet of 10 stamps.
  3. We can buy 2 booklets of 50 stamps and 2 booklets of 10 stamps.
  4. We can buy 1 booklet of 50 stamps and 4 booklets of 10 stamps.

Finally, let's look at the booklets of 10 stamps:

  1. We can buy 20 booklets of 10 stamps.

So, there are a total of 9 different ways to buy 200 stamps.

User Terraelise
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it would just be 20 packages of ten, 4 packages of 50, 2 of 100, 1 100 + 2 50, 1 100+ 1 50 + 5 10, and so on, you just keep adding them up different ways to make 200 
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