Mallow and s mom gave her $25 to buy school supplies Mallory needs to buy 5 notebooks and some mechanical pencils if each notebook cost $2.19 and each mechanical pencil costs $1.50 how many mechanical pencils can she buy
Mallory needs to buy 5 notebooks, so the total cost for the notebooks would be:
5 notebooks x $2.19 each = $10.95
She has $25 in total, so she has:
$25 - $10.95 = $14.05 left to spend on mechanical pencils
Each mechanical pencil costs $1.50, so she can buy:
$14.05 / $1.50 per mechanical pencil ≈ 9.37
Mallory can buy 9 mechanical pencils with the money she has left.