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Tabitha's mom gave her $10.00 to buy school supplies. Tabitha needs to buy 2 pens and some notebooks. If each pen costs $1.99 and each notebook costs $2.99, how many notebooks can Tabitha buy using only the money her mom gave her?

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She can buy 2 notebooks.
User Ziad Halabi
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She could only get two notebooks because the total after she got her two pens would be 8 dollars and u can’t divide that by three so you would do two which is your answer
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