Chapter 9 Linear Inequalities

Present for Damian

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It is Damian’s birthday. His friends Anwar, Grace, Colin, Diana, and Evan went to the store to buy a present. Each had an integral number of dollars. They found a suitable item whose price was an integer. Anwar was $15 short, Graeme was $14 short, Colin was $13 short, Dieter was $12 short, and Ewan was $11 short. Even when they pooled all of their funds, they could not buy the item. What was the cost of the item?

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