If the price of popcorn is $0.50 per box and the price of peanuts is $0.25 per bag, and you have $5 to spend and decide to purchase 6 boxes of popcorn, the maximum quantity of peanuts that you can purchase is _______ bags.
A) 4
B) 8
C) 10
D) 12

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The cost of 6 boxes of popcorn is 6 * $0.50 = $3. This leaves $2 to spend on peanuts. Since each bag of peanuts costs $0.25, with $2 you can buy 2/$0.25 = 8 bags of peanuts.

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