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The student council is ordering T-shirts from a website. The T-shirts cost $9 each and there is a shipping fee of $8 for any amo
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The student council is ordering T-shirts from a website. The T-shirts cost $9 each and there is a shipping fee of $8 for any
amount ordered. The student council wants to spend exactly $710 on the T-shirts. How many T-shirts, x, they can order?
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Answer: They can order 78 shirts.
Step-by-step explanation:
9x + 8 = 710
9x = 702
x = 78
**Since the shipping fee is $8 for ANY amount ordered, the price of shipping doesn’t change with the number of shirts — the shipping price is a constant.