document.write( "Question 199347: I need help solving the following word problem: Jill paid $36 for calendars marked down $5 apiece from the original price. If she had bought them at the original price, she would have gotten 5 fewer calendars for the same price. How many calendars did she buy? \n" ); document.write( "

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represent the number of items she purchased. Since she paid $36 for each of them, she paid

total. Since they were marked down $5, the original price must have been

. Five fewer than she actually bought is

so the amount she would have spent if they had not been marked down must be

. We are given that both of these amounts are the same, so:\r
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