document.write( "Question 698150: A grocer sold (a) pounds of butter for b cents. The number of cents the grocer received for x pounds of butter, expressed in terms a and b , was \r
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The Grocer's price is \"+a%2Fb+\" ( pounds of butter ) / ( cents )
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