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A ball is on sale for d dollars. The regular price is 4 times as much. Jax has enough money

to buy 2 balls at the regular price. How many balls can Jax buy at the sale price?

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Final answer:

Jax can buy 8 balls at the sale price because he has enough money to buy 2 balls at the regular price, which is 4 times the sale price.

Step-by-step explanation:

The question asks us to determine how many balls Jax can buy at the sale price given that he has enough money to buy 2 balls at the regular price. We're told that the sale price is one fourth of the regular price.

Let's denote the sale price of the ball as d dollars. The regular price of the ball would then be 4d dollars. Since Jax has enough money to buy 2 balls at the regular price, he has 2 × 4d = 8d dollars.

At the sale price of d dollars per ball, Jax can divide the total amount of money he has (8d dollars) by the sale price (d dollars) to find out how many balls he can buy:

8d ÷ d = 8 balls

Therefore, Jax can buy 8 balls at the sale price.

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