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Laura received a $80 gift card for a coffee store. She used it in buying some coffee that cost $7.96 per pound. After buying the coffee, she had $56.13

left on her card. How many pounds of coffee did she buy?

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Explanation:

Hi.

I can help.

First what we want to do is take what she had before spending any money and then take what she had after.

So :

$80.00

and

$56.13

Now to find how much she spent we can subtract these two numbers like so :

80.00 - 56.13

=

23.87

So now we know she spent a total of $23.87 on coffee in pounds.

Now if each pound of coffee costs $7.96 we can divide this into how much she spent $23.87 to find the total amount of pounds she bought for $7.96.

So:

23.87 / 7.96

=

About 3

She bought 3 pounds of coffee.

Hope this helps,

Have a great weekend

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