Problema Solution
Chris has a job selling newspapers every morning. He receives a base pay of $10 per day and also gets 15 cents for every paper he sells. One morning he made $16.45. How many papers did he sell?
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let
x = the number of papers that Chris sold, x is integer
10 + 0.15x = 16.45
by solving we find:
x = 43 papers
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Chris sold 43 papers.