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A shoe store bought 225 pairs of shoes for $15750. What is the cost of shoes?
\n" ); document.write( "The shoes cost $15750. We can stop here. The question doesn't even ask about a pair of shoes.
\n" ); document.write( "15750/225=70 Seventy dollars per pair
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