Question

James bought 6 cupcakes and a pint of ice cream. He knows his total bill and the pint of ice cream was $5.76, but

he wants to find the price of the cupcakes. How can he determine the price of each cupcake? If the total bill was
$22.26, how much was each cupcake?

Answer 1

Each cupcake was $2.75

Explanation:

We subtract the price of the ice cream from the total bill $22.26-$5.76=$16.50

We know he only bought the ice cream and cupcakes so once we subtracted the price of the ice cream, we now have the price of the cupcakes all together only

We divide the price of all the cupcakes by the amount of cupcakes to get the price of each individual cupcake $16.50/6=$2.75