Mr Spears was purchasing supplies for his math classroom. He had $25 to spend. Mechanical pencils and erasers come and bundles of 10. Gucci racer cost 50 cent. Bill and the missing place in the equation to compute the cost of each mechanical pencil.

Question

Mr Spears was purchasing supplies for his math classroom. He had $25 to spend. Mechanical pencils and erasers come and bundles of 10. Gucci racer cost 50 cent. Bill and the missing place in the equation to compute the cost of each mechanical pencil.

-----(x + .50) =25

Answer 1

The equation to compute the cost of each mechanical pencil is:

10(x + 0.50) = 25

First, we distribute the 10 to both terms inside the parentheses:

10x + 5 = 25

Then, we subtract 5 from both sides to isolate the term with the variable:

10x = 20

Finally, we divide both sides by 10 to solve for x:

x = 2

Therefore, each mechanical pencil costs $2.