SOLUTION: At a shooting range each shot costs 20c. If you hit the target you recieve 30c.Emma has 20 shots and makes a loss of 70c. How many hits did she get?
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Question 235969: At a shooting range each shot costs 20c. If you hit the target you recieve 30c.Emma has 20 shots and makes a loss of 70c. How many hits did she get?
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If she took 20 shots at 20¢ each, then she paid $4.00 (20 times 20 = 400). But if she only lost 70¢, then she must have gotten $4.00 - $0.70 = $3.30 back. Since she received 30¢ for each hit, she must have had 330/30 = 11 hits.
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