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Compute the total cost per year of the following pair of expenses. Then complete the sentence: On an annual basis, the first set of expenses is _______% of the second set of expenses.
Vern buys fifteen lottery tickets each week at a cost of $2 each and spends $800 per year on his textbooks.
On an annual basis, the money spent on lottery tickets is _____% of the money spent to buy textbooks?
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