SOLUTION: Recovering an investment. The manager at Cream of the Crop bought a load of watermelons for $200. She priced the melons so that she would make $1.50 profit on each melon. When a

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Question 197689: Recovering an investment. The manager at Cream of
the Crop bought a load of watermelons for $200. She
priced the melons so that she would make $1.50 profit on
each melon. When all but 30 had been sold, the manager
had recovered her initial investment. How many did she
buy originally?

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Recovering an investment. The manager at Cream of
the Crop bought a load of watermelons for $200. She
priced the melons so that she would make $1.50 profit on
each melon. When all but 30 had been sold, the manager
had recovered her initial investment. How many did she
buy originally?



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