Question

You are buying pens and pencils for school. A box of lens costs $1.50 more than a box of pencils. If you buy 6 boxes of pencils and 2 boxes of pens, you will spend $33. What are the two equations you need? X is a box of pens and Y is a box of pencils

Answer 1

To take the question as it is written, the question is how much would it be to buy 9 pens. Long one to believe that they are wanting to buy nine and not just a total of 9. If each of us $1.50, to buy 9 pens would be $13.50. At this point they would have bought 9 pens and have received 4 free, for a total of 13 pens.

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