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Okay Math people Next up in this h t adventure

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we're aspiring Teo Survive Clarence visiting alcatraz as a tourist

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Has twenty five bucks to spend in the gift store

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He wants to buy five greeting cards each of which

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cost three fifty at the store He decides to purchase

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alcatraz themed candy as well If each piece of candy

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cost two bucks Well how many pieces then can he

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buy Okay Well alcatraz themed candy Really Yeah We can

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only imagine how that might taste edible jailers Keys would

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be our pig rock candy That's a good one all

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right And crumbled concrete prison wall european flavor What do

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you think Well clarence has some wild and crazy plans

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for that twenty five bucks and he's throwing the traditional

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Don't spend it all in one place Wisdom out the

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window to figure out how much of a sugar high

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he can fund on his prison adventure First determine how

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much he spends on the greeting cards Multiply the cost

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by the number of greeting cards he buys Right So

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we got three fifty a card times five cards that

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gets you seventeen fifty Then we subtract that seventeen fifty

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from the original twenty five bucks in his pocket And

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that gets you seven fifty left that he conspiracy on

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candy right Twenty five dollars money Seventeen fifty seven fifty

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there That's not bad Clarence still has enough money to

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get his hands on some sugar About how much Well

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we just divide that seven fifty by two bucks That's

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for each piece Candy So it's seven fifty boat by

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two and it's a three point seven five pieces of

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candy Well that's awkward He can't buy four pieces He

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can't buy three point seven five pieces so he'll have

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to settle for three pieces of candy And the right

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answer is a and notice all the curve balls they

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threw you in this seemingly easy question The right answer 00:01:52.119 --> [endTime] is three in fact not forward

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