At the craft store, Alyssa bought an $8 sketchpad and several drawing pencils for $0.75 each. She paid a total of $17. How many drawing pencils did Alyssa purchase? (Write at least 5 sentences describing the steps in details on how to solve this problem and how you arrive to your answer.) PLZ DONT GIVE ME THE EXACT ANSWER

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Step-by-step explanation:

She spent $8 on a sketchpad and $17 in total.

Amount of money she spent on drawing pencils =

A drawing pencil cost $0.75 and she spent $9.

Thus, she bought drawing pencils.

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let x be the money she spent so that she can earn the free t-shirt.

since, she already spent $112.49

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also, as per the statement: jennifer must spend $250 or more in order to qualify for a free t-shirt at the store.

then,

we have an inequality i.,e

subtract 112.49 from both sides we get;

therefore, $137. 51 more money does jennifer need to spend so that she can earn the free t-shirt