Question

The cost of two cell phones and three headphone sets is $286.00. The cost of two cell phones and six headphone sets is $392.50. What is the cost of one cell phone?

Answer 1

Answer: 89.75

Explanation:

So 392.50 is the cost of 2 phones and 6 headphones and 286.00 is the cost of 2 cell phones and three headphones. so 392.50-286.00 is the cost of 3 headphones since you added three headphones to the price. so the price of 3 headphones is 106.50. Then you subtract 106.50 from 286.00 to get the cost of the two cell phones. And you get 179.50. Then, you divide 179.50 in order to get the price of one cell phone and you get 89.75. So the cost of one cell phone is $89.75.