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ACT Aspire Math: Budgeting for the Gift Shop with Multiplication and Division 3 Views
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Clarence, visiting the former military prison Alcatraz as a tourist, has $25 to spend in the gift store. He wants to buy five greeting cards, each of which costs $3.50. At the store, he decides to purchase Alcatraz-themed candy as well.
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- 00:01
Okay Math people Next up in this h t adventure
- 00:05
we're aspiring Teo Survive Clarence visiting alcatraz as a tourist
- 00:11
Has twenty five bucks to spend in the gift store
- 00:13
He wants to buy five greeting cards each of which
- 00:16
cost three fifty at the store He decides to purchase
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- 00:19
alcatraz themed candy as well If each piece of candy
- 00:24
cost two bucks Well how many pieces then can he
- 00:27
buy Okay Well alcatraz themed candy Really Yeah We can
- 00:35
only imagine how that might taste edible jailers Keys would
- 00:39
be our pig rock candy That's a good one all
- 00:42
right And crumbled concrete prison wall european flavor What do
- 00:46
you think Well clarence has some wild and crazy plans
- 00:49
for that twenty five bucks and he's throwing the traditional
- 00:52
Don't spend it all in one place Wisdom out the
- 00:54
window to figure out how much of a sugar high
- 00:56
he can fund on his prison adventure First determine how
- 01:00
much he spends on the greeting cards Multiply the cost
- 01:03
by the number of greeting cards he buys Right So
- 01:05
we got three fifty a card times five cards that
- 01:07
gets you seventeen fifty Then we subtract that seventeen fifty
- 01:12
from the original twenty five bucks in his pocket And
- 01:15
that gets you seven fifty left that he conspiracy on
- 01:18
candy right Twenty five dollars money Seventeen fifty seven fifty
- 01:21
there That's not bad Clarence still has enough money to
- 01:24
get his hands on some sugar About how much Well
- 01:26
we just divide that seven fifty by two bucks That's
- 01:29
for each piece Candy So it's seven fifty boat by
- 01:32
two and it's a three point seven five pieces of
- 01:36
candy Well that's awkward He can't buy four pieces He
- 01:39
can't buy three point seven five pieces so he'll have
- 01:43
to settle for three pieces of candy And the right
- 01:46
answer is a and notice all the curve balls they
- 01:48
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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