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GSM8K train #5084 · Arithmetic · Arithmetic word problems

An auctioneer raises the price of an item he is auctioning by…

An auctioneer raises the price of an item he is auctioning by $5 every time someone new bids on it. Two people enter a bidding war on a desk and the price goes from $15 to $65 before the desk is sold. How many times did each person bid on the desk?

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GSM8K — Grade School Math 8K (Cobbe et al., OpenAI, 2021) · train #5084

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