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Mallory's mom gave her $25.00 to buy school supplies. Mallory needs to buy 5 notebooks and some mechanical pencils. If each notebook costs $2.19 and each mechanical pencil costs $1.50, how many mechanical pencils can Mallory buy using only the money her mom gave her?

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Answer:

Mallory can buy 16 notebooks

Explanation:

You divide 25.00 by 1.50 which is 16.6 repeating. so, she can only buy 16 notebooks

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Answer:

she can buy 9 pencils

Explanation:

User Ahoura Ghotbi
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