On vacation you wish to send eight postcards to friends at home. You find cards costing $.59 each. Eight postcard stamps cost about $2 total. About how much will it cost to buy and mail the cards?
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To determine the cost of buying and mailing the postcards, we need to consider two factors: the cost of the postcards themselves and the cost of the stamps required to mail them.
First, let's calculate the cost of buying the postcards. We know that each postcard costs $0.59, and since you want to send eight postcards, we can multiply the cost of one postcard by the number of postcards: $0.59 x 8 = $4.72.
Next, let's calculate the cost of the stamps. We are told that eight postcard stamps cost about $2 in total. To find the cost of one stamp, we can divide the total cost by the number of stamps: $2 ÷ 8 = $0.25.
Now that we know the individual cost of one stamp, we can multiply it by the number of postcards to get the total cost of the stamps required to mail all the postcards: $0.25 x 8 = $2.00.
Finally, to find the total cost of buying and mailing the postcards, we add the cost of buying the postcards ($4.72) to the cost of the stamps ($2.00): $4.72 + $2.00 = $6.72.
Therefore, it will cost approximately $6.72 to buy and mail the eight postcards.