Question

For birthday party Mr. Perkins orders Ate chocolate chip cookies and 16 sugar cookies. Each cookies the same price. He also picked up a cupcake for himself, which costs $2.75. The total bill is $44.03. What is the cost of a cookie?

Answer 1

One cookie is $1.72

Explanation:

So. We are given a bit of information here that we must process. The biggest things we need to know are:

A cupcake= $2.75

24 Cookies in Total=?

Total Bill= $44.03

So, at this point in time, we can set up our equation with what we know, where our ? will equal X.

$2.75+X=$44.03.

This is a simple one step equation. We are going to subtract $2.75 from both sides, which cancels out on the left, and leaves:

X= $41.28

Now that we know the total of the cookies without the cupcakes, we can now set up a new equation such as: (The 24 comes from the number of cookies Mr.Perkins bought).

$41.28/24=?

Now divide.

Each cookie costs $1.72