Money is paid into an account in portions of $500 and paid out in portions of $300. If after a month the account grew by $1,200, what is the least possible number of transactions that could have been made?
A
3
B
4
C
5
D
6
E
7
Correct answer: B
Explanation
The least number of transactions is 4: $500+$500+$500−$300=$1,200
Source: Algebra word problems from the AQuA-RAT dataset (Ling et al., 2017), published by Google DeepMind under the Apache License 2.0.
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