document.write( "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? \n" ); document.write( "
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9*.5=4.50
\n" ); document.write( "99-10+1=90*1=90
\n" ); document.write( "225-100+1=126*1.5=189
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\n" ); document.write( "189+90+4.50=$283.50
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