A shopper plans to purchase an item that has a listed price greater than and can use any one of the three coupons. Coupon A gives off the listed price, Coupon B gives off the listed price, and Coupon C gives off the amount by which the listed price exceeds .
Let and be the smallest and largest prices, respectively, for which Coupon A saves at least as many dollars as Coupon B or Coupon C. What is ?
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