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Business owners often think about work-related problems as math problems. To find an answer, they first have to ask themselves: what do I need to figure out?

Read the following problem. Don’t worry about finding the answer. Just figure out what answer you’re looking for.

Bill’s plumbing business is expanding. He needs to buy a computer with at least a 4 gigabytes (GB) of memory. He saw an ad for a used computer with 4GB of memory that costs $600. A new computer costs twice as much and has three times more memory than the used one.

What does Bill have to figure out?

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