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Volunteers at Sam's school use some of the student council's savings for a special project. They buy 8 backpacks for $8 each and fill each backpack with paper and pens that cost $3. By how much did the student council's savings change because of this project?

The savings was changed by
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User Davecz
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$8 x 8 = $64
$3 x 8 = $24 (presuming this means $3 per backpack)
64+24 = $88
So -$88 (because the savings are decreasing)
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