2001 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 10
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[hide]Problem
A collector offers to buy state quarters for 2000% of their face value. At that rate how much will Bryden get for his four state quarters?
Solution
is equivalent to . Therefore, of a number is the same as times that number. quarters is dollar, so Bryden will get dollars, .
Solution 2
Since is just , we can multiply that by , because four quarters is a cents. After the multiplication, we get . Since our answer is in cents right now, we need to convert it to dollars, which would be dollars.
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