Question

Color Pencil Price per Pencil

Red $3.50

Blue $1.25

Black $0.76

The table above shows the price of each colored pencil. If Mike purchased the same number of Red, Blue and Black colored pencils and spent a total of $203.87, how many pencils did he purchase?

Answer 1

What you can do is trial and error. I started going multiplying each price by 10s and when I started multiplying by 30s I got a total of 37 colored pencils

Answer 2

First, add up all the prices.

3.50 + 1.25 + .76 = 5.51

I tested a few numbers and I discovered that Mike bought 37 pencils.

5.51 * 37 = 203.87