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Juan sold fruit baskets for $16.50 each and pencils for $1.50 each. His goal is to sell $300.00 worth of goods to pay for his trip’s cost. How many fruit baskets will Juan need to sell the last three weeks to achieve his goal? fruit baskets

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Answer:

18 fruit baskets and 2 pencils

Explanation:

To start off you want to take $16.50 x 18

which will leave you with $297, then you will add the pencils which will cost $1.50 and 2 pencils times 2 will give you $3.

The equation: 3 + 297 = exactly 300

User Roohollah Etemadi
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18.35 I think all u have to do is divide 16.50 by 300
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