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Mrs martin has 80 boxes of paper clips there are 10 paper clip in each box. How many paper clip does she have ?so 800

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helllo

to solve this problem, let's equate boxes to number of paper clip


\begin{gathered} 1\text{box}=10\text{paper clip} \\ \text{but she has 80 boxes} \\ 1\text{box}=10\text{paper clip} \\ 80\text{boxes}=\text{x paper clip} \\ \text{cross multiply both sides and solve for x} \\ 1* x=80*10 \\ x=800 \end{gathered}

there are 800 paper clips in 80 boxes

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