Clarissa is buying a prom dress on layaway. The dress costs $250. She makes a down payment of $25 to put the dress on layaway and then makes weekly payments of $15. In how many weeks is the dress paid off?

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Clarissa is buying a prom dress on layaway. The dress costs $250. She makes a down payment of $25 to put the dress on layaway and then makes weekly payments of $15. In how many weeks is the dress paid off?

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15 weeks

Explanation:

In this question, we are asked to give the answer to the number of weeks that would be taken for someone who had made a down payment and is trying to spread the remaining payments over some few weeks.

Firstly, she has made a down payment of $25. The amount framing to be paid is thus the total amount - the down payment. That is $250 - $25 = $225

This means she has a total value of $225 left not paid. Now we are told she makes a weekly payment of $15. The number of weeks for her to complete this payment will be 225/15 = 15 weeks

Clarissa is expected to complete the payment in the next 15 weeks