Maria spent half of her weekly allowance buying pizza. To earn more money her parents let her mow the lawn for $9. What is her weekly allowance if she ended with $13?

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Leni Ohnesorge · Answer 1 · 2018-07-01T19:10:05+0000

so by the passage, let Y be the weekly allowance.
so,
Y/2 (that is for the pizza) + 9 = 13
Y/2 = 4
Y= 8
so she has $8 for her weekly allowance