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Problem

Orvin went to the store with just enough money to buy $30$ balloons. When he arrived he discovered that the store had a special sale on balloons: buy $1$ balloon at the regular price and get a second at $\frac{1}{3}$ off the regular price. What is the greatest number of balloons Orvin could buy?

$\textbf{(A)}\ 33\qquad\textbf{(B)}\ 34\qquad\textbf{(C)}\ 36\qquad\textbf{(D)}}\ 38\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ 39$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg)

Solution

If every balloon costs $n$ dollars, then Orvin has $30n$ dollars. For every balloon he buys for $n$ dollars, he can buy another for $\frac{2n}{3}$ dollars. This means it costs him $\frac{5n}{3}$ dollars to buy a bundle of $2$ balloons. With $30n$ dollars, he can buy $\frac{30n}{\frac{5n}{3}} = 18$ sets of two balloons, so the total number of balloons he can buy is $18 * 2 \implies \boxed{\textbf{(C)}\ 36 }$


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