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Lockers in a high school hallway are numbered consecutively from 678 to 789. How many lockers are in the hallway?

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Lockers in a high school hallway are numbered consecutively from 678 to 789. How many lockers are in the hallway?
posted Jul 4, 2018 by Samardeep Acharya

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112 lockers
789-678=111+1=112, plus 1 due to both numbers inclusive

answer Jul 4, 2018 by Hanifa Mammadov



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