Heres the problem:
Winchester's local toy store sells items according to its own pricing system. A doll costs $10, a toy train costs $20, a cradle costs $20, a jumping jack costs $30, and a Tickle Me Elmo costs $50. Using the same system, how much does a drum cost?
I know the answer is $10,but I HAVE to explain why. Any patterns you see?
One pattern that I see is the number of letters in the toy name. The pattern is not absolutely linear. But regardless, the more expensive the toy the longer the name.
Thank you economyst! Well I figured out it's actually the amount of syllables (10)! (doll, toy-train, crad-le, jump-ing-jack, tick-le-me-elmo, drum)
To find the cost of a drum using the given pricing system, we need to look for any patterns among the prices of the other items.
Looking at the prices of the items, we can observe that there is a consistent pattern. The prices of the items are increasing incrementally by $10 for each successive item.
The doll costs $10, the toy train costs $20 (an increase of $10 from the doll), the cradle also costs $20 (the same as the toy train), the jumping jack costs $30 (an increase of $10 from the cradle), and the Tickle Me Elmo costs $50 (an increase of $20 from the jumping jack).
From this pattern, we can conclude that each additional toy increases the price by $10, except for the Tickle Me Elmo, which increases the price by $20.
Now, since we know that the drum is not mentioned in the given information, we can assume that it follows the same pattern as the other items. Thus, the drum would also cost an additional $10 from the previous item, which is the Tickle Me Elmo.
Therefore, the cost of the drum using the given pricing system would be $10.