1 Brady looked at the spider. It was big and black. It was fuzzy. It was made of rubber.
2 The spider was for sale. It cost one dollar. Brady looked in his pocket. He did not have a dollar. He had dimes. He had a dime for each job he did at home.
3 Brady looked at the spider. It was creepy. It would scare Nora. Brady loved to scare Nora.
4 Brady wanted the spider. It would scare his sister. He took his dimes out of his pocket.
5 "I know that one dollar is the same as one hundred cents," he said. "I know that one dime is ten cents. Do I have enough dimes? If my dimes add up to one hundred cents, I can buy that rubber spider. One hundred cents is the same as one dollar."
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