Question

The price of an item is $21.75. You give the cashier a $20 and a $10 bill. What is the change?

Answer 1

Explanation:

I gave total $20+$10= $30

$30-$21.75= $8.25

Answer 2

$8.25

Explanation:

We first need to find the amount of money we give the cashier

20+10 = 30

We give the cashier 30 dollars

Our bill was 21.75

30.00

-21.75

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We need to borrow

2 10.00

-2 1 .75

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We need to borrow

2 9. 10 0

-2 1 .7 5

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We need to borrow

2 9. 9 10

-2 1 .7 5

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8 .2 5

We will get $8.25 back from the cashier