document.write( "Question 1011197: Hats may be ordered from a supplier for $7.50 each or $60 for ten.
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document.write( "Since she paid $300 postage, the hats cost $2685-$300 or $2385.\r\n" );
document.write( "If she could have bought them all at $6 each that would be the most\r\n" );
document.write( "number of hats.  Then she would have 2385/6 = 397.5 hats.  'Course \r\n" );
document.write( "she can't buy half a hat and also she can only get $6 hats in \r\n" );
document.write( "batches of 10, so she bought 390 hats, 39 batches of 10 each at $60 \r\n" );
document.write( "per batch for $2340 and she spent the other $45 on single hats at \r\n" );
document.write( "$7.50 each and $45/$7.50 = 6 hats\r\n" );
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document.write( "So the most number of hats she could have bought would have been \r\n" );
document.write( "396 hats.\r\n" );
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