You have 105 cowry shells. If a dozen eggs cost 10 cowry shells, how many eggs can you purchase?
2 Answers
Mar 23, 2018
Explanation:
As a dozen i.e.
each cowry shell can buy
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Mar 24, 2018
If we can only buy eggs by the dozen, then we end up with
Explanation:
An alternate way of looking at this problem is to ask if we can only buy eggs by the dozen. If so, then we can buy 10 sets of a dozen eggs each and have 5 cowry shells left over. This gives: