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The Horse Trader

Buy, sell, buy back, sell again. Simple arithmetic — yet this puzzle once split an entire newspaper's readership.

by MindYourPuzzle

A man buys a horse for $60 and sells it for $70.

Then he buys it back for $80 and sells it again for $90.

How much profit did he make in total? (Answer in dollars.)

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