Question:
Stickers were sold only in big sheets of 60 stickers each and small sheets of 25 stickers each.
Andy and Ben bought the same number of sheets of stickers. Andy and Ben each bought some big sheets of stickers. Andy bought 8 small sheets of stickers while Ben bought 17 small sheets of stickers.
(a) What was the difference in the total number of stickers between Andy and Ben?
(b) Ben gave away all the big sheets of stickers that he had bought. As a result, he had 735 fewer stickers than Andy. How many sheets of stickers did each boy buy?
Solution:
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