Use reasoning to answer the following question.
At A.T. Cross Luxury Pens, a pencil sells at twenty-five cents while a pen sells at fifteen cents. Bowen buys 40 pens and 2/5 times more pencils than pens from A.T. Cross Luxury Pens. Calculate the total amount of money Bowen spends.

20
Bowen bought 2 / 5 * 40 pens = 16 more pencils than pens.

The total number of pencils that he bought is 40 pencils + 16 pencils = 56 pencils.

If each pencil costs twenty - five cents, the total amount of money he spent on pencils is 56 pencils * $0.

25 / pencil = $14.

On pens, Bowen spent $0.

15 / pen * 40 pens = $6.

The total amount of money Bowen spent is $14 + $6 = $20.

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So, the final answer is 20