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Brian wants to buy the same

number of hats for 3 of his
friends. He has $57 dollars, and
each hat costs $5. What is the
greatest number of hats that
Brian buys for each friend?

User Bizimunda
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Answer:each friend gets 3.

Explanation:

User Babernathy
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3 hats each is the largest amount Brian can buy
To get this answer I multiplied 3 friends by $5 amount of each hat and got $15 then I divided that into 57$ and got 3.8. So he can only afford to get each friend 3 hats each Brian should have $12 left
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