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A package of 4 mechanical pencils comes with 2 free erasers. if you get a total of 12 free erasers, how many packages of pencil did you buy?

A package of 4 mechanical pencils comes with 2 free erasers. if you get a total of-example-1
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User Benjohn
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6 packages of pencils
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User Soul Reaver
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The answer would be 6 packages.
The reason it is this answer is because all you have to do is use the number that your are using (2) and multiply it till you get to that number (10).

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