Question

A dry cleaner charges $2.95 to clean a shirt and a different price to clean a pair of pants. Tiwon paid $29.05 to clean 4 shirts and 5 pairs of pants. Which of these number sentences represents the cost to clean a pair of pants? Need help with this !!

Answer 1

We can set up an equation using the information provided. Let x be the cost to clean a pair of pants.

The cost to clean 4 shirts is 4*2.95 = $11.80

The cost to clean 5 pants is 5x

The total cost is $11.80 + 5x = $29.05

So, we can represent the cost to clean a pair of pants as:

x = $29.05 - $11.80 / 5

This number sentence shows the cost to clean a pair of pants is x = $4.81