A baseball team has $265 to spend on T-shirts for their fans. Each T-shirt costs $7. After buying as many T-shirts as possible, how much money will the baseball team have left over?

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To determine how many T-shirts the baseball team can buy with their budget of $265, we first need to divide the total amount of money by the cost of each T-shirt.

The cost of one T-shirt is $7, so we perform the following calculation:

\[ \text{Number of T-shirts} = \frac{\text{Total money}}{\text{Cost per T-shirt}} = \frac{265}{7} \]

Calculating this gives:

\[ 265 \div 7 = 37.8571 \]

Since we can only buy whole T-shirts, we round down to the nearest whole number, which is 37 T-shirts.

Next, we calculate how much money will be spent on 37 T-shirts:

\[ \text{Total cost} = \text{Number of T-shirts} \times \text{Cost per T-shirt} = 37 \times 7 = 259 \]

Now, we find out how much money will be left over after purchasing the T-shirts:

\[ \text{Money left over} = \text{Total money} - \text{Total cost} = 265 - 259 \]

Calculating this gives:

\[ \text{Money left over} = 6 \]

Therefore, the baseball team will have \(\boxed{6}\) dollars left over after buying as many T-shirts as possible.