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It took Suki 127 minutes from start to finish to carve her pumpkin. Carving the pumpkin took her 13 fewer minutes than 10 times as long as it took her to pick the pumpkin out at the pumpkin patch. Write and solve an equation to find how long it took Suki to pick out her pumpkin.

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Answer:

  14 minutes

Step-by-step explanation:

Let t represent the time it took Suki to pick out her pumpkin. The given relation is ...

  10t -13 = 127 . . . . . equation for minutes to carve

  10t = 140 . . . . . . . . add 13

  t = 14 . . . . . . . . . . divide by 10

It took Suki 14 minutes to pick out her pumpkin.

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