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AQuA-RAT train #4937 · Algebra · Algebra word problems

John and Mary were each paid x dollars in advance to do…

John and Mary were each paid x dollars in advance to do a certain job together. John worked on the job for 10 hours and Mary worked 4 hours less than John. If Mary gave John y dollars of her payment so that they would have received the same hourly wage, what was the dollar amount, in terms of y, that John was paid in advance?

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AQuA-RAT — Algebra Question Answering with Rationales (Ling et al., DeepMind, 2017) · train #4937

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