Question

Note: Enter your answer and show all the steps that you use to solve this problem. A customer went to a garden shop and bought some potting soup for $12.50 and 6 shrubs. If the total bill was $71.00, how much did each shrub cost is they all cost the same? Write and solve an equation. Show your work.

Answer 1

$4.68

Step-by-step explanation:

We're told that the cost of potting soup was $12.50 and that the total cost of potting soup and 6 shrubs was $71.

So we can go ahead and find the cost of the 6 shrubs which will be;

$71.00 - $12.50 = $58.50

The cost of each shrub will then be;

58.5 / 12.5 = $4.68