SOLUTION: a student is hired by a city's maintenance department to paint houses numbers on the curbs in a particular neighborhood. Each digit has to be painted separately,and the student was

SOLUTION: a student is hired by a city's maintenance department to paint houses numbers on the curbs in a particular neighborhood. Each digit has to be painted separately,and the student was

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Question 356913: a student is hired by a city's maintenance department to paint houses numbers on the curbs in a particular neighborhood. Each digit has to be painted separately,and the student was painted 50 cents per digit. He painted house numbers 1 to 225. How much did he earn?
Answer by edjones(8007) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
9*.5=4.50
99-10+1=90*1=90
225-100+1=126*1.5=189
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189+90+4.50=$283.50
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Ed
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