Question

You bought a magazine for $3 and four notepads. U spent a total of $11. How much did each notepad cost.

Answer 1

Let's use the variable x to represent the cost of a notepad.

Since the cost is given by $3 from the magazine plus four times the cost x from each notepad, we can write the following equation:

`\text{Cost}=3+4x`

The total cost is $11, so let's use this value in the equation and solve it for x:

`\begin{gathered} 11=3+4x \\ 11-3=4x \\ 4x=8 \\ x=(8)/(4) \\ x=2 \end{gathered}`

Therefore the cost of each notepad is $2.