The coach of a high school baseball team has an $800 budget to purchase new uniforms for the team. If a complete uniform costs $23.99, how many uniforms can he buy?

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To find out how many complete uniforms the coach can buy with an $800 budget, we need to divide the total budget by the cost of one uniform.

The cost of one uniform is $23.99. Therefore, we calculate:

\[ \text{Number of uniforms} = \frac{\text{Total budget}}{\text{Cost per uniform}} = \frac{800}{23.99} \]

Now we perform the division:

\[ \frac{800}{23.99} \approx 33.34 \]

Since the coach cannot buy a fraction of a uniform, we take the whole number part of the result. Thus, he can buy:

\[ \text{Number of uniforms} = 33 \]

To confirm this, we can calculate the total cost for 33 uniforms:

\[ 33 \times 23.99 = 789.67 \]

This amount is within the budget. Checking for 34 uniforms:

\[ 34 \times 23.99 = 815.66 \]

This exceeds the budget of $800.

Therefore, the maximum number of complete uniforms the coach can buy is

\[ \boxed{33} \]