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To: Fungi

The answer is correct. The ball costs .05 and the bat costs $1.00 more which is $1.05. The Combined total of both items is $1.10.


6 posted on 09/22/2016 4:42:22 PM PDT by American Infidel (Instead of vilifying success, try to emulate it)
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To: American Infidel
The answer is correct. The ball costs .05 and the bat costs $1.00 more which is $1.05. The Combined total of both items is $1.10.

Five-plus decades ago, my father, a math teacher, liked to pose almost exactly the same question. Only in his case, it was a bottle and a cork, with the the cork costing a nickel, and the bottle costing a dollar more.

21 posted on 09/22/2016 5:25:49 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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