Mr Spears was purchasing supplies for his math classroom. He had $25 to spend. Mechanical pencils and erasers come in bundles of 10. Each eraser costs $0.50. Fill in the missing place in the equation to compute the cost of each mechanical pencil. (1 point)

Question

(x + 0.50) = 25

Answer 1

The equation should be (10x + 0.50) = 25. This is because each mechanical pencil comes in bundles of 10, so the cost of x mechanical pencils would be 10x.