Chapter 9 Linear Inequalities Present for Damian ![](/sites/dl/free/0070973407/645442/image006.jpg) (8.0K)
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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