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

An engaging image illustrating the scenario of a man standing in a store filled with school supplies. He holds a $25 bill in one hand, and in the other, bundles of mechanical pencils and erasers. Each bundle contains 10 items respectively, and you can see a price tag on the eraser bundle indicating its cost as $0.50. In the background, perhaps there's a blackboard with a math equation on it, visually representing the scenario but with a missing value represented by a blank space. Please ensure there's no actual text in the image.

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)

blank(x+0.50)=25

Answer 1

The answer is 10 (x = 0.50) = 25

Answer 2

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)

______(x+0.50)=25

Answer 3

To compute the cost of each mechanical pencil, we need to subtract the cost of the erasers from the total amount Mr. Spears has to spend.

The cost of the erasers is x erasers * $0.50 per eraser = $0.50x.

So the equation becomes: x + $0.50x = $25.

Combining like terms: 1.50x = $25.

To solve for x, we divide both sides of the equation by 1.50: x = $25 / 1.50.

The missing placeholder would be 25 / 1.50.

Answer 4

To compute the cost of each mechanical pencil, we need to solve the equation given:

x + 0.50 = 25

To isolate x, we can subtract 0.50 from both sides of the equation:

x = 25 - 0.50

Simplifying the right side:

x = 24.50

Therefore, each mechanical pencil costs $24.50.