The U.S. Mint pays $0.02 to produce every penny. How many pennies are produced when the U.S. Mint pays more than $6 million in production costs?
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Answer:300 millionsStep-by-step explanation:The U.S. Mint pays to produce every penny = $0.02When the U.S. Mint pays more than $6 million in production cost. The number of pennies are produced = [tex]\frac{6,000,000}{0.02}[/tex] = 300,000,000U.S. Mint produced 300 million pennies.