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A store sells erasers for 0.23$per piece and pencil for 0.1 [#permalink] ### Show Tags 26 Jul 2014, 09:36 2 This post received KUDOS 3 This post was BOOKMARKED 00:00 Difficulty: 15% (low) Question Stats: 81% (01:57) correct 19% (00:47) wrong based on 185 sessions ### HideShow timer Statistics A store sells erasers for 0.23$ per piece and pencil for 0.11$per piece. How many eraser and pencils did Jessica buy? (1) She bough 5 erasers (2) She spent total of 1.70$
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Re: A store sells erasers for 0.23$per piece and pencil for 0.1 [#permalink] ### Show Tags 26 Jul 2014, 09:47 A store sells erasers for 0.23$ per piece and pencil for 0.11$per piece. How many eraser and pencils did Jessica buy? (1) She bough 5 erasers. Clearly insufficient. (2) She spent total of 1.70$ --> $$0.23e+0.11p=1.70$$ --> $$23e+11p=170$$ --> by trial and error we can find that the only non-negative integer solution for this equation is e=5 and p=5. Sufficient.

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Re: A store sells erasers for 0.23$per piece and pencil for 0.1 [#permalink] ### Show Tags 26 Jul 2014, 09:47 Bunuel wrote: A store sells erasers for 0.23$ per piece and pencil for 0.11$per piece. How many eraser and pencils did Jessica buy? (1) She bough 5 erasers. Clearly insufficient. (2) She spent total of 1.70$ --> $$0.23e+0.11p=1.70$$ --> $$23e+11p=170$$ --> by trial and error we can find that the only non-negative integer solution for this equation is e=5 and p=5. Sufficient.

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