document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=187480>Question 187480</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> Can you please help me with this problem and how you got to the answer.  \r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "A carpenter goes to a hardware store to buy a specific number of pounds of nails for his business.  The first store he enters sells his favorite-sized nails at nine cents per pound.  At this price, the carpenter realizes that he would be short $7.15 if he tried to buy the nails.  The carpenter goes to a competing hardware store and finds the nails sell for six cents per pound.  He realizes that after paying for the nails, he would have $2.45 left over.  How many pounds of nails is he trying to buy?\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Thanks :) </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "c = money he has in cents.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "p = pounds of nails<BR>\n" );
document.write( "9p = c + 715  The price is $7.15 more than he has.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "6p = c - 245<BR>\n" );
document.write( "------------  Subtract eqn 2 from eqn 1<BR>\n" );
document.write( "3p = 960<BR>\n" );
document.write( "p = 320 pounds of nails  <BR>\n" );
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document.write( "That's a lot. </SPAN>\n" );
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