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Georgia, who lives in a cold area, has 13 pairs of matched gloves in different patterns. If she loses 9 individual gloves, what is the greatest number of pairs of matched gloves she can have left?

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b) 8
c) 7
d) 6
e) 5

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Georgia, who lives in a cold area, has 13 pairs of matched gloves in different patterns. If she loses 9 individual gloves, what is the greatest number of pairs of matched gloves she can have left?

a) 9
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c) 7
d) 6
e) 5

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13 pairs of matched gloves = 26 individual gloves.

If she loses 9 individual gloves, she'll be left with 17 individual gloves out of which we can have maximum of 8 pairs of matched gloves (+ 1 individual glove).

Answer: B.
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Georgia, who lives in a cold area, has 13 pairs of matched gloves in different patterns. If she loses 9 individual gloves, what is the greatest number of pairs of matched gloves she can have left?

a) 9
b) 8
c) 7
d) 6
e) 5

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\(\frac{(13*2 - 9)}{2}\) = 8.XX

So, there will be a maximum of 8 pairs...

Answer will be (B) 8
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Georgia, who lives in a cold area, has 13 pairs of matched gloves in different patterns. If she loses 9 individual gloves, what is the greatest number of pairs of matched gloves she can have left?

a) 9
b) 8
c) 7
d) 6
e) 5

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Of the 9 individual gloves she loses, she could have lost 8 paired gloves (i.e., 4 pairs of matched gloves) and one unpaired glove. Therefore, the minimum number of pairs of gloves she could have lost is 5 and thus she could still have a maximum of 8 pairs of matched pairs left.

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Georgia, who lives in a cold area, has 13 pairs of matched gloves in different patterns. If she loses 9 individual gloves, what is the greatest number of pairs of matched gloves she can have left?

a) 9
b) 8
c) 7
d) 6
e) 5
Given that, There are 13 pairs of matched gloves
There are 26 matched gloves. She loses 9 individual gloves and remaining number of matched gloves is 17
That is, at best there are 8 pairs of matched gloves. (B)
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