Codger is a three-footed sloth. He has a challenging time buying shoes because the stores only sell the shoes in pairs. If he already owns the 3-piece set of shoes he is wearing, how many pairs of shoes does he need to buy to have 5 complete 3-piece sets of shoes?
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6
To have five 3 - piece sets, he needs to have a total of 5 * 3 = 15 shoes,.

If he already owns three shoes, then he needs to buy 15 - 3 = 12 additional shoes.

Since each pair of shoes includes two shoes, he needs to buy a total of 12 / 2 = 6 pairs of shoes.

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Thus, the answer is 6