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Problem
Goldfish are sold at cents each. The rectangular coordinate graph showing the cost of to goldfish is:
Solution
goldfish costs cents, goldfish cost cents, and so on until fish. One may think that it is a straight line segment at first, but note that there cannot be a third of a goldfish sold (if so then that would be creepy). Thus our answer is .
See also
1957 AHSC (Problems • Answer Key • Resources) | ||
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