If you spend $1.85 and pay with a $10.00 bill, you get $8.15 in change.  Notice that the digits in your change are the same as the digits in what you spent.  There are four other amounts your could spend so that the change has the same digits. Find them.
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If you spend $1.85 and pay with a $10.00 bill, you get $8.15 in change.  Notice that the digits in your change are the same as the digits in what you spent.  There are four other amounts your could spend so that the change has the same digits. Find them.

$0.95, $1.85, $2.75, $3.65, $4.55, $5.45, $6.35, $7.25, $8.15

 

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