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John and David were each given X dollars in advance for each…

John and David were each given X dollars in advance for each day they were expected to perform at a community festival. John eventually performed on all 40 days of the festival, while David performed on 5 fewer days than John performed. If David gives John y dollars of her advance payment so that they would have each received the same daily rate, what was John paid in advance, in terms of Y?

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AQuA-RAT — Algebra Question Answering with Rationales (Ling et al., DeepMind, 2017) · train #65403

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