Stephanie spent half or her weekly allowance playing arcade games. To earn more money her parents let her clean the oven for $7. What is her weekly allowance if she ended with $12.

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Stephanie spent half or her weekly allowance playing arcade games. To earn more money her parents let her clean the oven for $7. What is her weekly allowance if she ended with $12.
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Firstly we have unknown money which is her allowance money. And she spent her half of her allowance money on playing arcade. Now she left with half of her allowance. Now she clean oven and get $7 now she have total money which is equal to sum of half of her allowance and $7.

At the end,she have total money $12 which equal to sum of  her remaining allowance and $7 she get by cleaning the oven.

we make linear equation from these data and solve for unknown value which is her allowance. 

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