Problema Solution
Denise bought some apples for 25 cents each. She ate two of them, and she sold the rest of them for cents each. If her profit was $1.88, how many apples did she buy?
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the phrase "she sold the rest of them for cents each" is missing numeric information required to solve this problem... for how many cents did she sell each apple?
25 cents = 0.25 dollars
let 'p' represent the price in dollars per apple, let 'x' represent the number of apples she bought
1.88 = (x-2)p - 0.25x
once you know 'p', convert it to dollars, enter it into the above equation and solve for 'x', the number of apples Denise originally bought