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:: Bedtime Torturing :: I was about to go to bed before I came across this site [Japanese Online] and got stuck with their gradeschool math problems. This is the second question: They said 12 years old Japanese kid can solve it in 2 minutes. Me and Pop spent about ... 20 :P~ Q. Jenny wanted to purchase 2 dozen pencils and a pen. Those items cost $8.45 and she did not have enough money. So she decided to purchase 8 fewer pencils and paid $6.05. How much was a pen? You would have 2 minutes to finish this problem if you were a Japanese 12 year old. ANSWER CHOICES a. $1.25 b. $1.05 c. $1.65 d. $0.90 e. $1.15 Check out HINT and EXPLANATION and ANSWER HERE...