Question

A teacher plans to buy 5 pencils for each student in her class. Pencils come in packages of 18 and cost $1.99 per package. What is the cost per pencil?

Answer 1

You divide the total pencils by the price, each pencil is $0.11 :)
1.99 / 18

Answer 2

As per the problem , we have

Pencils come in packages of 18 and cost $1.99 per package.

As we know if price of n item is$ x then , then the price of one item is $
`(x)/(n)`

Here we are given that ,

Total number of pencil in the package
`=18`

Price of the package=$1.99

Hence price of one pencil=
`(1.99)/(18)= 0.1105`

The cost per pencil=$0.1105